Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

There are always greater fish than you have caught, always the lure of greater task and achievement, always the inspiration to seek, to endure, to find.

Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter.

Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time.

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

I will see this game of life out to its bitter end

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

He continued to stare out the window. "I meant what I said before. You need to walk away, Pidge. God knows I can't walk away from you.

From politics to parenting, Christians have something to say.

Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever.

McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth.

For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates.

I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this.

When it gets to this point, it's just hard to pull the trigger.

I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.