What's the difference between a whore and a congressman? A congressman makes more money. - Edward Abbey

Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.

The itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things. Let them and leave them alone — they'll survive for a few more thousand years, more or less, without any glorification from us.

When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes — disease and death and the rotting of flesh.