An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness.

The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.

Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw

I may be the wrong person for my life.

Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by.

As God achieved with devotion, success is achieved with dedication.

There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.

"We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."

I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.

Chelsea are the team who can break the Arsenal and Manchester United monopoly.

Written reports stifle creativity.

You can basically change everything in a startup but the market.

When I run into disappointment - say, for example, not getting a role I'd hoped for - I just try not to take it personally.

On Earth, much of the wrenching discomfort of emesis, apart from the sensation of nausea itself, is from the coordination of many muscles it takes to counter gravity.

There is no such thing as a false idea.