You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness.

The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.

Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw

I may be the wrong person for my life.

Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by.

When you live by the demands and supply of life, it becomes a pleasurable adventure.

A gentleman does things no gentleman should do in a way only a gentleman can.

Is fame without purpose and is fame without talent really where we are now? People used to be famous for what they did. Now, they're just famous.

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

I wanted to be a psychologist. You know, I thought that's what I'd be doing and it just goes to show you that, if you tell God your plans, He will laugh in your face.

Separation prevents the government from determining church policy, whether directly or indirectly.

Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!

No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that passes away like a vision, and this vanishes like a dream.

Hope is necessary in every condition.