I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

There are always greater fish than you have caught, always the lure of greater task and achievement, always the inspiration to seek, to endure, to find.

Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter.

Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time.

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

I will see this game of life out to its bitter end

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

When we are true to ourselves, all that is toxic and burdensome simply falls away

Since you stand in the same bridge with him why don't you two just jump off.

Companies should be able to share specific threat information with the government without the prospect of lawsuits hanging over their head.

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

I always have fun. I don't really go without fun too long.

When you have love in a story, it gives you the freedom to really take the characters to very interesting places.

We're really talking about the Army and Marine Corps here for almost all these ground combat jobs. They want to move in a careful, deliberate manner.

You can't take people's opinions personally. Usually what people say about it is a reflection of them own issues.

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.