Down the River Quotes

“Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.”
― Edward Abbey, Down the River

“Modern men and women are obsessed with the sexual; it is the only realm of primordial adventure still left to most of us. Like apes in a zoo, we spend our energies on the one field of play remaining; human lives otherwise are pretty well caged in by the walls, bars, chains, and locked gates of our industrial culture.”
― Edward Abbey, Down the River

“I might also say, regarding reviews and reviewers, that I have yet to read a review of any of my own books which I could not have written much better myself.”
― Edward Abbey, Down the River