I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.

Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.

A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.

The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.

On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.

About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.

...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.

Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

Love and hate are practically the same thing.

I put artistic values above all others. Because writing, for me, is an expanded world, a limitless world, containing all.

The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.

What Trump is onto is, he's just saying what's on his mind. And sometimes it's not so good. And sometimes it's... I mean, I can understand where he's coming from, but I don't always agree with it.

A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.

I'm getting really tired of bleeding. Someone stop the world, I want to get off.

We keep waiting for the American people to wake up, and they keep hitting the snooze bar. But something, folks, someday, will wake them up. Of that I'm confident.

Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.