Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout.

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish.

I don't suppose I ever entirely release a fish. I may not eat it, but that does not mean I take nothing from it before I let it go.

When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.

The issue of imitation has always occupied fly fishers, and part of its endless attraction has been the imponderable uncertainty of how much it matters to the fish in the first place.

As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.

Winners never quit, and quitters never win. Once you give up, you'll have to start all over again. Success take time, especially when you need it. The one is patient remains undefeated.

We live in an upside-down world, in which people hate what they should love and love what they should hate.

Hemmingway was a jerk.

You know you are a sweet little heart breaker, foxy lady.

My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.

The cells are thus the stomachs of which the plant has millions like mouths.

I worship makeup. The basics are always: Stila shadows, LeClerc powder for my crazy shiny skin, Bobbie brown liner pot, Chanel mascara, and Koh Gen Do for foundation, Nars for colors and sparkles.

No matter who you are, you have the nature and capacity for leadership.

I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.

Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings.