Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
Edward AbbeyProust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.
Edward AbbeyI was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
Edward Abbey