Latest Hunter S. Thompson Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm not a liberal, by the way.I believe I have every right to have guns. I just bought another huge weapon. A lot of people shouldn't own guns. I should. I have a safety record. Guns are a lot of fun out here.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fun, Believe, Gun

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

• I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, Gun, Contradiction

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

• I was once arrested with [Allen] Ginsburg. He was a big help to me. He was one of the few people who read unknown writer's work. Maybe he was just hustling me. He liked to flirt, Allen. They called him a monster but he was only falling in love.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Falling In Love, Flirting, People

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

• [Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the manager of a sex theater who's forced to leave and flee to the mountains. He falls in love and gets in even more trouble than he was in the sex theater in San Francisco. Most of my stories are tales of anguish, stress and grief.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Falling In Love, Sex, Stress

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

• Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Hero, Writing, Long

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

• I'm doing an introduction for one of Ralph's [Steadman] books. He's doing something called Gonzo, the Art I think he's stealing from me. I like Steadman and his coattail abilities. Ralph is better at business than I am. He has always managed to get free whiskey.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Art, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

• It might be a little rough on some people for a while, but I think it's the only way to deal with drugs. Look at Prohibition: all it did was make a lot of criminals rich. Should be legalized for a matter of sanity.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, People, Drug

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

• I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to be a horrible downer of a book [The Proud Highway] if all it's going to be is about being broke. I didn't like being reminded of desperation at all times.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Book, Tired, Years

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

• I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography. I never knew what was going to come up next.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Book, Proud, Biographies

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

• I'd almost prefer [Richard] Nixon. I'd say [Bill] Clinton is every bit as corrupt as Nixon, but a lot smoother.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Bills, Clinton, Bits

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

• ["Where the Buffalo Roam" is] horrible pile of crap. [Bill] Murray did a good job. But it was a bad script. You can't beat a bad script. It was just a horrible movie. A cartoon. But Bill Murray did a good job. We actually wrote and shot several different endings and beginnings and they all got cut out in the end. It was disappointing.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Jobs, Cutting, Cartoon

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

• Jim Harrison is someone I always enjoy, one of the great contemporary writers. I like Tim Ferris' Big Boom Theory. I'm getting into a different kind of reading, not straight novels.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Reading, Different, Kind

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

• ["Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The what if factor. I tried to write it cinematically and let the dialogue carry it but I forgot about the interior monologue. It's kind of hard to show what's going on in the head. I think we should do it like a documentary.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

• The years after 2000 will be a monumental change in the way life is lived here. It will be harder and harder to relate to our children. I don't know what it's going to be. I don't plan to be around in the year 2000. I'll be taken away by the Sufi God.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Children, Taken, Years

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

• It's hard to say what I meant by "as we know it." I'm not about to go up on a mountain on new year's eve and wait for the lightening to strike.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  New Year, Years, Waiting

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

• Sometimes you're fooled quickly. You want to be fooled. If you can't trust your first impression you're going to have a harder time than you should.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  First Impression, Want, Firsts

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

• The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  People, Mind, First Impression

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

• My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It's about as important as things get.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Good Friend, Important, Talent

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

• Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  People, Calling, Way

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

• I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  People, Way, My Way

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

• By the time I got to high school I knew what I was gonna do. Mainly because I looked around and saw there wasn't much else I was able to do. I was a criminal. I was a juvenile delinquent.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  School, Able, Saws

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

• I keep my mouth shut now. I've turned into a professional coward.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Coward, Mouths

  Source: blankonblank.org

• It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have some kind of personal identity with one of the teams, if only a huge bet.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Football, Team, Games

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

• Any kind of political campaign that taps the kind of energy that nothing else can reach would generate a tremendous high for everybody involved in it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Political, Energy, Campaigns

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

• It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Fun, Political

  Source: www.rollingstone.com