The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others? — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill! — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
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… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey Copy Share
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
“Look here, I want to say, for godsake folks get out of them there machines, take off those fucking sunglasses and unpeel both eyeballs,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
“What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share
