Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness.

The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.

Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw

I may be the wrong person for my life.

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by.

Women do amazing, creative, wonderful things.

Lies can be formed from truths, but truths cannot be formed from lies.

The one who is happy can never get too early out of bed.

Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.

I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.

During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there.

Wood may remain twenty years in the water, but it is still not a fish.

The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.

Life, sometimes so wearying is worth its weight in gold the experience of traveling lends a wisdom that is old.

I think movie makers in every country are looking for ideas. It's interactive. And sometimes we remake a lot of Hollywood films but we don't buy the rights, we just try to imitate those films.