Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, "Que pasa, baby?

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.

His life spells living. Your life or my life, apart from Him, spells death.

Bodies lay strewn all around. Turkish and Wallachian warriors caught in the intimate indiscriminate embrace of death.

I love you guilty. It makes it easier for me to wrap you around my finger.

And I loved seeing that because they're great interesting cities in of themselves so I'm looking forward to actually being able to use it as itself instead of being a bad New York.

Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.

Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

A team is not a bunch of people with job titles, but a congregation of individuals, each of whom has a role that is understood by other members.

You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated.

Nowadays, everything is so gratuitous. The violence is suggested, and it's much more impactful than showing everything.