“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) ”
“When I want to write something I just sit down (or stand up) and do it. Scribble, scribble, nothing could be easier. It helps, naturally, to have something to say.”
“What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.”
“What most people really desire is something quite different from industrial gimmickry- liberty, spontaneity, nakedness, mystery, wildness, wilderness.”
“How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?”
“Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.”