Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.

Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.

Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.