It's funny but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune and you never know when it will befall you.

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.

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

Great mission lies ahead of us.

All our interior world is reality - and that perhaps more so than our apparent world.

Their wedding night was at a little hotel in Paris. There were walk up steps and a lovely view. And all was well for these two.

Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won't do it unless my coaches tell me I've just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.

I was 14 when I lost them [his front teeth]. The main thing was, we won that game, so I was the happiest. You hate to lose your teeth and the game, too.

It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man.

I was strongest when I laughed at my weakness.

The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way.

Passion does not compensate for ignorance.

It's not just the child that has autism. It's the whole family that has autism. It's not a one person thing.