"It is like sitting in a traffic..." - Quote by Hunter S Thompson
It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.
More by Hunter S Thompson
“Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.”
“I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that.”
“I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.”
More on Experience
“Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to look in a different direction.”
“My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.”
“Out of time we cut 'days' and 'nights', 'summers' and 'winters.' We say what, each part of the sensible continuum is, and all these abstract whats are concepts. The intelletual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of a conceptual order for the persceptual order in which his experience originally comes.”
More on Chaos
“Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions.”
“In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify.”
“Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.”