Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North

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.

The police are often as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them.

I read your diary. I KNOW

Children throw tantrums because they've imagined their 'father in heaven' does so. And because, their inherited religious book has, in written, shown them so.

That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything.

I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality.

Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.

Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.

Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.

When men have killed joy, I do not believe they still live.