creating, braving and embracing a good life (20 February 2016)

The anarchic and dissolute world and thoughts of Hunter S. Thompson


Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives… and to the “good life”, whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.

- Hunter S. Thompson

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”

- Hunter S. Thompson

Ben Morrison, Burnout, 2004

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