This sketch is expected to sell at auction
for $8,000 to $12,500.

“If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it
or else you’re going to be locked up.”
– Hunter S. Thompson

A man who procrastinates in his choosing
will inevitably have his choice made for him
by circumstance.
– Hunter S. Thompson,
The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I’m not sure that I’m going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says ‘you are nothing’, I will be a writer.”
– Hunter S. Thompson, Gonzo

“I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.”
– Hunter S. Thompson

“Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles – a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other – that kept me going.”
– Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

“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

“All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.”
– a remembered line from a long-forgotten poem recalled by
  Hunter S. Thompson in Hells Angels.