I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

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.

Everyone wants a prodigy to fail it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

Once you start working out, you feel better and it becomes something you make time to do.

The help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don't know which end to talk to.

Donald Trump is not a serious kind of candidate. We need someone that thinks this through. That can lead our country to safety and security.

Chinese people age overnight.

I have a hard time with extreme imagery. Like I can't watch horror movies or anything like that.

You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.

Both my study of Scripture and my career in entertaining children have taught me to cherish them.