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• My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink.
  Then add the kitchen sink. -- Edward Abbey...
• Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• My sole porpoise was entertainment.
• When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind
  If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it. -- Edward Abbey...
• My books are not taken seriously. But that's all right; they are given playfully. -- Edward Abbey
• Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies.
  To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss....
• There's something about winning at poker that restores my faith in the innate goodness of my fellowman.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Play with my body, not my mind.