As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.

I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.

I live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and I spend a lot of time outdoors.

When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.

Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.

I learned to look up suddenly from a hatch or feeding frenzy and find myself momentarily removed from solid earth. I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself

I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt!

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

A person’s tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.

I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.

When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.

I grew up in a dictatorship, so I really appreciate democracy. I think democracy isn't just a random thing that's around - a democratic society needs the involvement of everybody.

Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism.

The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

Comic books are a big passion of mine.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.