Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.

Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife.

I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.

There is no subsititue for fishing sense, and if a man doesn't have it, verily, he may cast like an angel and still use his creel largely to transport sandwiches and beer

Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.

Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed

The best time to go fishing is when you can get away.

To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.

The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.

There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.

One of the first rules in fishing is that there are few rules in fishing that resourceful trout do not manage to break.

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

Why is it that blood, rather than peace, sells?

In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others)

I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel like a man anymore -- I felt really creepy. I was bumping into walls and saying, Excuse me.

There are many things we can live without but a sense of humor is not one of them!

No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.

It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.

I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy.

I'm in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star.