If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

Quote by Hunter S Thompson

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on...

You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on...

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600...

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600...

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress...

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress...

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind...

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind...

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money...

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money...

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no...

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no...

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked...

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked...

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond...

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond...

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in,...

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in,...

A word to the wise is infuriating.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.

I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who...

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who...