Цитаты из книг — Эбби Эдвард

— Когда-то дикая природа была вполне приемлемым местом обитания для человека, — продолжал доктор. — Теперь она служит психиатрическим диспансером. А скоро и вовсе не станет дикой природы, — он отхлебнул свой бурбон со льдом. — Скоро некуда будет уходить, негде будет спасаться. Тогда сумасшествие станет вселенским, — еще…

Now come the banks, the office buildings, the blank brutal facades of steel and Plexiglas, the necrosis at the core of the spreading metastasis. Space-age sleaze.High-tech slums. Nothing new. But the streets and sidewalks are full of people, during business hours, and that too, like the poolrooms and cigar shops, is a…

In my boat I carried enough food for two weeks, a one-man tent, a sleeping bag, some warm clothes in a rubberized bag, five gallons of drinking water, and the many other little items needed for a week or more in the wilds - cigars, bourbon, the Portable Tolstoy, matches, Demerol tablets, pen, notebook, a .357 and a P-38.

In a large meadow of golden hay stand nine log cabins, all built of dressed logs hewn with a broad axe. It looks at first glance like a village, but Moore lived mostly alone here, from 1898 until 1942. According to Conley, he built the extra cabins because he liked to build and because he didn't want to waste the trees…

It'a enough to drive a good man to drink. But not me: I'm not a good man. Nor am I, much as I would like to be, an evil and wicked man. Damn it, no; I belong to the great mass of the in-betweens, hapless and impotent, slow and dull and awkward, sentimental, easily moved to tears, full of big hopes, bigger doubts, gigantic…

Love is adventure. Art is adventure. I've explored some interesting places: Grand Canyon, Majorca, under ladies' skirts, central New Mexico, the heart.