We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.

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 kill by consent, every time you let something… pervert the balance when you have the power to stop it.

I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself.

Nothing you will ever do in your lifetime is likely to make you as much money as buying a home and living in it.

Don't be discouraged if you think you're not a great writer because terrible writers are successful in Hollywood

Men often marry their mothers.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

The whole point of life is to maximize your emotional income. Getting that ball and going is a tremendous physical thrill, an ego thrill, a personal power satisfaction.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.