The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.

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.

You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.

One to be a murderer. One to be a Martyr. One to be a Monarch. One to go Mad

Social media: a fine tool for radicalised idiots to find each other, a promised land for the pub bores and Champ Man anoraks of the nation.

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

I'd say that individuals are respected who stick to their convictions instead of doing whatever happens to be in fashion.

If I see Danny Hillis quoted as an expert on MPP one more time, I'm going to puke.

Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage.

I am portrayed as a dangerous individual who can be fought thanks to their ideas.

It's like being at a theme park every time you go to a training session

Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.