"The brutal reality of politics would be..." - Quote by Hunter S Thompson

“There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.”

“Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.”

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.”

“There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.”

“I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.”

“I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.”

“...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.”

“The frontiers are not east or west, north or south; but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be a neighbor, there is anunsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, farther still, between him and it. Let him build himself a log house with the bark on where he is, fronting IT, and wage there an Old French war for seven or seventy years, with Indians and Rangers, or whatever else may come between him and the reality, and save his scalp if he can.”

“You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.”