"Optimists are usually inexperienced."

“It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.”

“For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.”

“The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer than in other states.”

“The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.”

“Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.”

“We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.”

Source : Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

“those who fail to plan, plan to fail!”

Source : Michael Baisden (2001). “Men Cry in the Dark: A Novel”, Touchstone

“Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are - by definition - abusive relationships. You'll be much better off when you let them go.”