There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon.

Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.

The two best times to fish is when it's raining and when it ain't.

Show me a man who fishes in winter, and I'll show you a fanatic. Actually, I'll get the better of the deal, because for sheer spectacle a fanatic doesn't hold a candle to a man who fishes in winter

What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

Meditation turns from its purgatory role to recognize in self-knowledge and in the mind's images of the external world the general essences in which all things have their being.

The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting.

It's actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated.

Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.

I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'

I can live well with what I have.I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more.

If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing.

A soft answer breaks the rage, a tough answer encourage the fury.

And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.