I don't suppose I ever entirely release a fish. I may not eat it, but that does not mean I take nothing from it before I let it go.

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout.

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish.

When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.

The issue of imitation has always occupied fly fishers, and part of its endless attraction has been the imponderable uncertainty of how much it matters to the fish in the first place.

As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.

How you die out in me:down to the lastworn-out knot of breathyou're there, with a splinter of life.

I was with book, as a woman is with child.

I'm psychologically equipped for this.

I know about me. I am the moons sister, a tidal child stranded on land. The sea always in my ear, a surf of eternal discontent in my blood.

When suffering comes, learn to trust each day into God’s hands . . . let your lips be filled with prayer and praise.

In general, I feel if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.

Dream big and stay true to yourself as you pursue your dreams.

I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.