Promising to bring home a feed of fish is the absolute kiss of death to any chances of catching anything but a large heap of derision when you get home.

Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace.

Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desire.

Feed a fish a cat a day

If you want to catch more fish, more often, take luck out of your fishing equation and replace it with knowledge of fish, their habitat and behavior, and you will make your own luck.

Unraveling life lessons from just the past few years would take many more years. Lessons unlearned would pass with me, when I went through that door, to be completed in some future lifetime.

There are such repulsive faces in the world.

We must not only observe but listen to the sound of nature.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

The internet has made possible a frightening practice of threats and intimidation - threats of unspeakable violence and death.

My mind is always racing.

I hate to lose more than I like to win.

I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

An artist is someone who feels the vibrations of the world and tries to transcribe them through his medium.