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.

I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program.

I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.