All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

In a life properly lived, you're a river.

Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.

Death steals everything except our stories.

Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

Her desires are mine. Her wishes are mine. Should even the world stand against her, my blade will be at her side. And should it fail to protect her, let my own existence be forfeit." - Ash

A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.

Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

I will not stop in our efforts to hunt down and kill the terrorists.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

That's true, because I'm a photographer now.

Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.

When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.

All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again.