Remembering Hunter S. Thompson, the father of Gonzo journalism. Yesterday was his death anniversary, here are some of my favorite quotes by him:

“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!”

“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.”

“Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits -- a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.”

“I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.”

“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.”

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

“I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.”

“Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.”

“Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.”