I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

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.

I believe that the choice not to have a choice is a choice in itself.

As far as now I can tell that most Stephen King fans don't know him well. They have read or viewed few works and their judge is based on them... that's now well knowing a writer!

Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!

I got a fur shawl once. I was so disgusted! And I couldn't re-gift it. I don't know anyone who'd want fur.

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.

Any time you audition and get it, you earned it.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.