I am a road man for the lords of karma. - Hunter S. Thompson

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but to those who can see it coming and jump aside.

I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.

I sat there for a long time, and thought about a lot of things. Foremost among them was the suspicion that my strange and ungovernable instincts might do me in before I had a chance to get rich. No matter how much I wanted those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction — toward anarchy, poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas goat.