"The most important thing a writer can..." - Quote by Hunter S Thompson

“No music plus Bad TV = Bad mood & no pages.”

“I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, but I will not make that mistake again. The joke is over for Nader. He was funny once, but now he belongs to the dead.”

“I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.”

“I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.”

“Believe me, if anybody has a job and starts at 9, there's no reason why they can't get up at 4:30 or five and write for a couple of hours, and give their employers their second-best effort of the day - which is what I did.”

“He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.”

“Each person was himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if I should call for help, would anyone hear would it even matter?”

“It's lonely on the top when there's no one on the bottom.”

“No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.”