Death steals everything except our stories.

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.

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.

Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.

Grow taller than your failures

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right with God before you worship Him yourself.

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

My mother always told me that no matter how late it is, you take your makeup off. Take it off!

Hard work is for people short on talent.

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.

I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

I learned a lot about acting from the people I worked with.