Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.

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.

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.

Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.

Life is the night skyAll the dots of stars are happiness

At first are moving tombs on the surface of the surface of the earth

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors

Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.

I've always been attracted to guys with big brains.

I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.

The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.

I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.

Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.