There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
Edward AbbeyToo many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.
Edward AbbeyThere are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.
Edward AbbeyThe real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and empire. From a race of hunters, artists, warriors, and tamers of horses, we degraded ourselves to what we are now: clerks, functionaries, laborers, entertainers, processors of information.
Edward Abbey