That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.

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.

Jin looked both ways for the Quicksilver Dragon before crossing the canal.

You have to lose something to gain anything.

Beware of fascist feminism.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

The culture of modern Spain is something many people are still discovering.

It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.

A truth does not become greater by repetition.

Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us.

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans