Hunter S. Thompson

Gonzo journalism . . . is a style of “reporting” based on William Faulkner’s idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism—and the best journalists have always known this.

It is Nixon himself who represents thatdark, venal, and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

The TV business . . . is normally perceived assome kind of cruel and shallow money trenchthrough the heart of the journalism industry, along plastic hallway where thieves and pimpsrun free and good men die like dogs, for nogood reason.

[I]f you work in either journalism or politics...you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways—but it doesn’t hurt as much when you’re right.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

No point mentioning those bats, I thought. The poor bastard will see them soon enough.

There is probably some long-standing “rule” among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: “When you start stealing from your own work you’re in bad trouble.” And it may be true.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

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.

Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.

Going to trial with a lawyer who views your whole life as a crime in progress is not a happy prospect.