Happy Birthday, Gonzo! Thank you, Hunter S. Thompson for being you. To celebrate His Birthday we collected some of our favorite Gonzo Quotes.

Happy Birthday Gonzo! Thank you Hunter S. Thompson for being you. To celebrate His Birthday we collected some of our favorite Gonzo Quotes.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

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

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

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

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.

A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.