"Going to trial with a lawyer who..." - Quote by Hunter S Thompson

“Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.”

“It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.”

“You can't miss what you never had.”

“The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client.”

“A free citizen in a free state, it seems to me, has an inalienable right to play with whomsoever he will, so long as he does not disturb the general peace. If any other citizen, offended by the spectacle, makes a pother, then that other citizen, and not the man exercising his inalienable right, should be put down by the police.”

“The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.”

“In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story.”

“All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.”

“Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.”