Gonzo Quotes

#1. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and 'Extras' and also 'The Trip.' That had all the nuances of friendship and finding things out about their lives without it being too much plot-driven.

Dolly Wells

#2. Anyone that is able to put a high school film and gonzo journalism together, it's like, "Yes, please!"

Zoe Kravitz

#3. So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Hunter S. Thompson

#4. Las Vegas and the American Dream: two ideas intertwined like crossed fingers on a bloated corpse.

Jonathan Heatt

#5. Gonzo, the enlightened hippy-biker island god, was a hermit in every sense of the word; a hermit crab and this island was his shell.

Jonathan Dunne

#6. I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.

Hunter S. Thompson

#7. At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.

Hunter S. Thompson

#8. Gonzo ... acidic hilarity ... 'The Fun Parts' has fine moments, but it's not the whole Lipsyte story. Read it with 'The Ask' if you really want to know how a mordant jokester with a madman's imagination became a literary rock star.

Janet Maslin

#9. What sells, today, is whatever Fucks You Up - whatever short-circuits your brain and grounds it out for the longest possible time.

Hunter S. Thompson

#10. Its just an inch from me to you, depending on what map you use.

Jewel

#11. I have to say, I'm still surprised anyone's nice to me, that anyone talks to me. But I think people understand that other people go through things. We're all a bit gonzo, and you're allowed to take a little time to get your head on straight.

Natasha Lyonne

#12. We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.

Hunter S. Thompson

#13. And when all the world came back And the light crept up between the shutters, And you heard the sparrows in the gutters, You had such a vision of the street As the street hardly understands;

T. S. Eliot

#14. Lucy paints portraits of Barbara Streisand.

Hunter S. Thompson

#15. The only way to write honestly about the scene is to be part of it. If there is one quick truism about psychedelic drugs, it is that anyone who tries to write about them without first-expierience is a fool and a fraud.

Hunter S. Thompson

#16. An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.

Hunter S. Thompson

#17. Dammit!" "What?" Gonzo sounds panicked. "We're out of gas." "You're Shithenging me." "I Shithenge you not.

Libba Bray

#18. Earth is such a sweet 'n sour place, thought Gonzo, puffing on his seaweed roll-up, and he knew that if aliens did exist, then they'd probably only stop to avail of this planet's toilet facilities on the intergalactic highway.

Jonathan Dunne

#19. Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism ...

Hunter S. Thompson

#20. I guess the biggest difference from the things I've done in the past is that my work will be more narrative-driven adult films or vignettes, not just "gonzo" scenes, which are straight sex, no storyline.

Sasha Grey

#21. Love with all your heart, soul and mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

Gavin Rossdale

#23. I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.

Libba Bray

#24. Thus Gonzo, incendiarist and leader of men.

Nick Harkaway

#25. As such, the first question you should be asking yourself isn't "Is this a good book?" but "Is this really the story I want to spend my time on?

Rachel Aaron

#26. 'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

Jerry Jeff Walker

#27. A real man knows how to nurture nature and nurture himself from nature.

Marcus L. Lukusa

#28. Treat life as a suicide mission, take on the impossible jobs and attack with the gusto of someone who has nothing to lose ... and when you revel in victory, make like it's a dirty win

Josh Stern

#29. Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

Mary Brave Bird

#30. How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family. Will he make that grim connection..

Hunter S. Thompson

#31. Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in vogue when he was honing his craft at Rolling Stone back in the day.

Thomas Frank

#32. Being forgiven is like having all the worst bits of yourself stuffed into a balloon and then having that balloon set free.

Shannon Wiersbitzky

#33. Because for Gonzo, anything which may explode at any moment is clearly a girl.

Nick Harkaway

#34. Gonzo leaps like a giraffe and grabs it.

Jerry Coleman

#35. Don't judge your taco by its price

Hunter S. Thompson

#36. She straddles me, ass to my face, reverse cowgirl, tangled hair swinging. And son of a bitch, the woman can ride.

Karen Marie Moning

#37. Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

Hunter S. Thompson

#38. The proper bookmark for a Hunter Thompson book is a pair of brass knuckles.

Jonathan Heatt