Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.

Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!

. . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to come.

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

I'm not a Perfectionist."I just don't want to get Embarrassed and Ashamed".

The course of nature is the art of God.

Once our country is fully engulfed in a debt crisis, our economy will be torn apart, and every American will be a victim of the federal government's failure to prevent this disaster.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random.

I love my apartment in New York.

In the house, and on the street, how many, many feet you meet.

Courage! even sorrows, when once they are vanished, quicken the soul, as rain the valley.

My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I dont know why.

Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that.

Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.