If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
Edward AbbeyMy notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
Edward AbbeyThe basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.
Edward AbbeyI suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory, myself, or maybe simply disappear someday, far out in the heart of the wilderness I love, all by myself, alone with the Universe and whatever God may happen to be looking on. Disappear - and never return. That's my fantasy.
Edward Abbey