It is easy to tell tourists from tarpon. Tarpon have a narrow, bony plate inside the mouth of their lower jaw. Tourists have both upper and lower plates.

Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.

I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.

The best time to go fishing is when you can

I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.

People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other fishermen are called crackpot fishermen. This is confusing.

...there are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream.

Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a worm-fisherman in half, each half will grow into a complete fisherman. For which we should all be eternally grateful.

Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off.

The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells

Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . .

When you want something, he entire universe conspires to help you achieve it.

Wouldn’t you like to arrive to any event or situation with a sense of confidence and ease that things are as they need to be?

I think it's safe to say that 50% of the record buying metal community is people between the ages of 16 and 25 - people still in their teenage-angsty, early young-adult years.

These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.

Everything is so infinitely simple, so infinitely beautiful.

They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

For the first time in history, we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real-time... Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.

Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.

You must always learn to see yourself as a great advancing soul.