A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks

There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.

A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart

Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.

I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.

Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.

I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except that we like it and it makes us think and feel.

A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.

... To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than catch half a dozen fish unseen until they take.

Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.

You win, you dirty evil butt-munch. I'll never not let you stay over again. Now let's go back to bed.

Art isn't a product. It's an experience

No matter how much you feel it in your heart, if you don't tell the person then it's meaningless.

The more you appreciate, the more you have to appreciate.

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us, and this terrible knowledge requires us to act differently.

I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism.

There's 54 years of X-Men comics by now, so there are a lot of characters to explore.

I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing

My movies before tend to be just funny. But it wasn't a conscious thing I was looking for at all.