I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

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.

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Your inner natural flow of life connects you with the natural flow of life that takes place in the universe.

I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.

He thought he suddenly understood. For the Lincon-shire sergeant-major the word Peace meant that a man could stand up on a hill. For him it meant someone to talk to.

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation.