I can write anywhere.

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.

He wounds but he heals.

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

My son has autism, and I founded the government relations department at Autism Speaks.

You heard of hell, well I was sent from it.

I think that the people in Indiana want to see more jobs, more opportunity. And they want to make sure that Washington listens to them.

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.

I am number one in the world, so I have the right to be arrogant

Americans are always a little bit insecure.

The test of a man's conversion is whether he has enough Christianity to get it to other people. If he hasn't, there is something wrong.