Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.

There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.

A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart

I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.

Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.

I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except that we like it and it makes us think and feel.

A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.

... To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than catch half a dozen fish unseen until they take.

A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks

Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.

Only God knows the unknown

An idiot child screaming in a hospital." (on George Bernard Shaw)

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self.

Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people.

I think surfing and music are both places of release and self expression where there are no rules, and you can find a different form of freedom that you can't anywhere else.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense that one age is over and a new one is beginning - in business, in politics, in science, in psychology.

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

Amy: I had something I wanted to tell him. Stuff always gets in the way. Canton: Stuff does that.

The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.