Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

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.

The only place where to experience the invisible future is in the mind. The relationships we have with our minds make all the difference.

It was the literary equivalent of a brown paper bag.

Appreciating what I have is my medicine.

This is what entrepreneurship is all about. You start off operating from a garage. And, end up, operating from a car.

Taste is the feminine of genius.

When fools rush in, rush out.

You know, I don't ask myself too much how. I just do it.

I...have a woman in my arms who has suffered greatly and desperately needs to believe once again that she is beautiful.

Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.