The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.

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.

I know Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

The key to healthy communication is having a willingness to lay aside our defensive tendencies and accept responsibility for our part of the relationship

Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind.

The harder you work and the more prepared you are for something, you're going to be able to persevere through anything.

Sometimes I pick up a book and I say: Well, so you've written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then I won't have to write it.

[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.

Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.

There's a lot of negativity in the world. I'm trying to be positive.

New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.

Not waiting for someone to give you what you can give yourself.