I don't trust anybody that doesn't do good work. I don't give them any credibility. If they can't write, why should I believe anything they have to say?

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.

His smile is laced with dynamite.

Love like a chicken salad or restaurant hash must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.

If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.

There is only eternity. That's our real body. The stars are our blanket. Time doesn't even exist, except in our own minds.

In the Far Eastern languages we have many different words to describe the varying degrees of reality that a thing, a state of mind or plane of being may have.

I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.

It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films.

I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.