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.

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.

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.

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

There are thousands of codes in the Torah which are decoded by the Talmud.

My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.

The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear.

You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.

I've been acting since 2002, around about there.

Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.

Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

Chaos is a terrible thing to waste.

A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.