Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.

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.

In the light, he looked like a fallen angel asked to return to Hell.

I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.

To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water far away from its centre, I feel the whirl of the vortex sucking me slowly, irresistibly, inescapably into itself.

You have all died many times before and none of you look the worse for it.

I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.

The finest day i ever had was when tomorrow never came.

Like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone.

Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.

Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol.

I admire young people who are concerned with the affairs of their community and nation perhaps because I also became involved in struggle whist I was still at school.