Catch-and-release fishing is an ecological necessity, not my preference. The practice smacks of bad faith, an inauthentic act.

The thrill of a fish at the end of the line, that thing that sparks from the dark water to spinal cord, is a vestige of an archetypal joy that has to do with sustenance, material and spiritual.

The worst part of losing good fish is that you cannot release them. They tailwalk across the back of your mind for days.

He loved her all he could

Imagination is one of the few things a man can count on if he's got the reality to feed it.

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why some days it's so quiet you don't even know it's there.

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

It's strange to think that culture is simply a matter of millions of files flying around, but we now think in terms of networks for everything.

The only reason people lock their car doors when Obama walks by is they are afraid he'll tax them to death...

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

Believing that power is much more important than money and that money is much more important than happiness.

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.