It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness.

The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.

Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw

I may be the wrong person for my life.

Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe

Creativity is the process that gives life to a new product.

How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all of its failings.

You can handle anything.

She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.

I think a lot of artists go waving their Grammies around thanking God for their Grammy, but when it comes to a pitch battle in the street for the honor of God, none of them is anywhere to be found.

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.