Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.

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.

It was one thing to stay in one place If you were happy and fulfilled- that was simply living the good life. But what if you weren't fulfilled?

Words are only painted fire a look is the fire itself.

The hardest thing in the world is for a warrior to let others be.

First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

I think we are at a new evolutionary stage. We evolved in tight-knit tribes in which we faced death if we didn't have the support of the rest of the tribe.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

Because personal revelation is a constantly renewable source of strength, it is possible to feel bathed in help even during turbulent times.

There are no incurable ills.

Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?