# Quote — Hunter S. Thompson, Proud Highway

> But fie on these unanswered queries and fie on those who pose them. There are stories to be written, drinks to be drunk, women to be ravished, and … alas, money to be made. We shall ride the bouncing ball and fight gamely to avoid being on the bottom when it bounces. … that is all ye know and all ye need to know. Amen.

- Author: [Hunter S. Thompson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson.md)
- Book: [Proud Highway](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/proud-highway.md)
- Page: 96
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson#The_Proud_Highway_:_The_Fear_and_Loathing_Letters_Volume_I_(1997)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/proud-highway/but-fie-on-these

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> There is at this moment a beetle the size of god's ass on the table about six inches from the t-writer. It is worse than anything Kafka ever dreamed, so big I can see its eyes and the hair on its legs — jesus, suddenly it leaped off and now circles me with a menacing whir.

p. 337 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/proud-highway/there-is-at-this.md)

> Events of the past two years have virtually decreed that I shall wrestle with the literary muse for the rest of my days. And so, having tasted the poverty of one end of the scale, I have no choice but to direct my energies toward the acquisition of fame and fortune. Frankly, I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left me.

p. 106 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/proud-highway/events-of-the.md)

> A man has to BE something; he has to matter.

p. 118 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/proud-highway/a-man-has.md)