I am — really am — an extremist, one who lives and loves by choice far out on the very verge of things, on the edge of the abyss, where this world falls off into the depths of another. That's the way I like it.


The Journey Home: Some Words In Defense of the American West, Introduction (p. xiv), E.P. Dutton & Company. 1977

Edward Abbey Quotes

I am — really am — an extremist, one who lives and loves by choice far out on the very verge of things, on the edge of the abyss, where this...

I am — really am — an extremist, one who lives and loves by choice far out on the very verge of things, on the edge of the abyss, where this...

I am — really am — an extremist, one who lives and loves by choice far out on the very verge of things, on the edge of the abyss, where this...

I am — really am — an extremist, one who lives and loves by choice far out on the very verge of things, on the edge of the abyss, where this...