The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells

Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.

I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.

The best time to go fishing is when you can

I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.

People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other fishermen are called crackpot fishermen. This is confusing.

...there are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream.

Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a worm-fisherman in half, each half will grow into a complete fisherman. For which we should all be eternally grateful.

Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off.

Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . .

... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.

God is going to lift you up higher, day by day and from prayer to prayer.

Love or hate my work. I write not to impress. It's just in me to give.

Make a start, even if you have a controversial idea!

Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.

The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.

I love being able to reach people directly, but in an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of new music… but the message is still there.

Good things could happen to not so bad people.

That's it. I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond.

Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning - one that leads you toward becoming the fullest human being you can be.