Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desire.

Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace.

Feed a fish a cat a day

Promising to bring home a feed of fish is the absolute kiss of death to any chances of catching anything but a large heap of derision when you get home.

If you want to catch more fish, more often, take luck out of your fishing equation and replace it with knowledge of fish, their habitat and behavior, and you will make your own luck.

All you need is one safe anchor to keep you grounded when the rest of your life spins out of control

Surprise was not when i thanked my parents. Surprise came when they said, "What for"?

The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.

I'm very militant, you know, in a quite way.

It's a joy to be recognized and to have people that are interested in what you do. That can pick up your whole day.

Recognize that there is a time to be left-brained and a time to be right-brained; a time to be efficient and a time to be creative; a time to work and a time to play.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

Dogs are fine in the field.

It's very difficult to decide. And I'm very open to proposals.

Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?