Young anglers love new rivers the way they love the rest of their lives. Time does not seem to be of the essence and somewhere in the system is what they are looking for.

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.

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

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.

It is wise to learn from the great sacred-souls.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude.

People who invest in aviation are the biggest suckers in the world.

If you expect to have it all, you will have nothing. Learn to be happy with nothing - and you will have it all!

A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions.

Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability -- not as a sacrifice to God for humanity's sins.

With enough time, you can get used to almost anything.

I started writing hits the day I sold my piano.

Everyday life is interesting enough, whether it be in an office or being ignored on the set of something supposedly more glamorous.