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.

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.

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.

Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.

Follow people who love people. Not necessarily those who teach people.

Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Anyone who lives inside the US can never be considered an outsider anywhere in the country

History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

One can't be free without action.

There is a peace deep within myself from knowing that all things are held within and sustained by the love of God.

There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.

If you have everything prepared, the rest will take care of itself.

Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient.

For all things are less dreadful than they seem.