"This is the way life goes in..." - Quote by Hunter S Thompson

“Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that “After midnight, all things are possible.”

“I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.”

“There is a progression of understanding vis-à-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance --physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. . . Which is exactly the way it should be . . .”

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.”

“Buy the ticket, take the ride.”

“It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him.”

“It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.”

“My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.”

“As for the "proper way:" it is the beginning of disorder.”