“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-
Dose of Dr. Gonzo
“The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
Dose of Dr. Gonzo
“There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I’d finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn’t feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
Dose of Dr. Gonzo
“Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear, and I salute them for it. If you think the world is weird now, imagine how weird it would be if wild beasts had no fear.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
Dose of Dr. Gonzo
“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
Dose of Dr. Gonzo
“I had come regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague that there was no sense talking about it.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
Dose of Dr. Gonzo
“Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives…and to the ‘good life,’ whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
Dose of Dr. Gonzo
“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
Dose of Dr. Gonzo
“A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you’ve been here for five years.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
Dose of Dr. Gonzo
“Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
