"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" Quotes

In some circles, however, hysteria has begun to assail the role of the hero in general, or as we say, 'the myth of the doomed man'

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when it's waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye.

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.

No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.

We had two bag of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls... Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

Let us not forget the rampant rumors of weirder things... relayed in coy whispers... stoned gibberish that was my stock in trade. Afterall, bad craziness has its limits.

I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger... a Man on the Move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.

You better take care of me, Lord. If you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

I knew it was time to leave when I started rooting for the stock market to crash, not just for the Working Poor but for myself and my friends.