The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
Edward AbbeyThe industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
Edward AbbeyThe ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.
Edward AbbeyPoor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'
Edward Abbey