The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

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 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.

Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.

Writers cleave together like a demonic AA group - we are singularly able to dance with each other's devils...

I wish transphobia, biphobia, homophobia didn't exist, and I wish that's what the show could just be, but sadly that's not the situation around the world.

The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes.

I'm becoming the street. Who are you in love with? me? Straight against the light I cross.

Leningrad ... is a city with the gift of timelessness.

The superstitions of today are the scientific facts of tomorrow.

The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most.

No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.