When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout.

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish.

I don't suppose I ever entirely release a fish. I may not eat it, but that does not mean I take nothing from it before I let it go.

The issue of imitation has always occupied fly fishers, and part of its endless attraction has been the imponderable uncertainty of how much it matters to the fish in the first place.

As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.

One of the ways to discover our toughness and resiliency is to look back at where we come from. (from Amazon description)

I'd sneer and tell him he's got the cerebral finesse of an amoeba and delight in his squint of confusion.

We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did not turn away.

Just promise me you'll think of me everytime you look up in the sky and see a star

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.

Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.

Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.

My husband and I don't have children. We can't have children because we hate them.

It's good way to relax when I come home from the road. When you're out there on the tractor there's nobody to bother you.

Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.