To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.
Edward AbbeyNothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
Edward AbbeyI was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
Edward AbbeyRecorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
Edward AbbeyEdmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the society he lived in. (See, for example, _A Piece of My Mind_; _The Cold War and the Income Tax_; the introduction to _Patriotic Gore_.) Our conventional critics cannot forgive him for those scandalous lapses in good taste.
Edward Abbey