"Writing is the flip side of sex..." - Quote by Hunter S Thompson

“Just sick enough to be totally confident”

“Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.”

“The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.”

“A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.”

“Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.”

“when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.”

“Who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances, far better by comparing them as conscientiously as we can with other varieties of melancholy, happiness, and trance, than by refusing to consider their place in any more general series, and treating them as if they were outside of nature's order altogether?”

“I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.”

“I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.”