Black Sun Quotes

“The trail ends at the beginning of a road. Or the end of a road. His machine is here, the small jeep truck in a shed, that truck which looks as if it had survived not merely the wars of North Africa and the mud of Italy, but had been driven back to America by way of Tashkent and Samarkand, over the Burma Road and then towed beneath the Pacific by submarine and beached somewhere on the desert shore of Baja California, abandoned for twenty years, discovered, rehabilitated, brought finally”
― Edward Abbey, Black Sun: A Novel

“When the coyotes refuse to eat off my plates I know it’s time to wash them.”
― Edward Abbey, Black Sun: A Novel

“The words as always so poor an imitation of the reality; not even in fact an imitation at all but a different reality, making what little he remembered of his life something apart and separate, in a different world.”
― Edward Abbey, Black Sun