Edward Abbey

Grown men do not need leaders.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.