The essence of sport is courage.

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness.

The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.

Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw

I may be the wrong person for my life.

Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

The measure of a man is his state of mind.

In order to be more successful than the other people, you have to do something that otherpeople are not doing.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

The fact that many things have no explanation ought to prevent them from happening; but it doesn't.

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

I never thought I'd be a person who would want to write books...I promise you not a single English teacher I've ever had would have thought that this would be going on right now.

I like well to be in the company of explorers

You have the Best Of Me.

I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.