Swallows and Amazons for-ever!

Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.

Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

. . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to come.

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

My mind aches with a thousand stories. All variations with shredded threads of truth.

Confidence matters a lot than what you want to say, if you are not bold enough.

I cried out at the sudden visitation of pain, everyone in a silent church standing in a rustle of suits and dresses to bend back their longest fingernail.

When you decide to appreciate something, no matter how subtle, you absolutely do pivot and shift your vibration significantly.

Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.

Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.

... does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!

You kinda want to look for the anomalies. You don't actually want to look for the expected behaviour.

There is really no end to life's little humiliations.