"There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge."
"Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!"
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
"America: just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."
"We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws."
"We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world - bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are whores for power and oil with hate and fear in our hearts."
Here is a Guardian article about him with some quotes. He sounds like a nut case.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/feb/21/huntersthompson
"There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge."
"Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!"
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
"America: just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."
"We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws."
"We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world - bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are whores for power and oil with hate and fear in our hearts."