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• The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really enjoys the bitterness of failure.
  -- Soren Kierkegaard...
• Beware of the man who has no enemies. -- Edward Abbey
• Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. -- Edward Abbey
• The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill! -- Edward Abbey
• A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously. -- Edward Abbey
• The author: an imaginary person who writes real books. -- Edward Abbey
• Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies. -- Edward Abbey
• You can't belay a man who's falling in love. -- Edward Abbey
• Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies.
  This explains many things; for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board...