Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.

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.

Gratitude gets us through the hard stuff...Gratitude always leaves us looking at God and away from dread.

Life is not the mountaintops, it's the walking in between.

Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.

At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.

In their daily life, all are braver than they know.

I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey

I've always enjoyed myself. Unhappy periods for me last about twenty minutes.

I thought about ["Summer Sisters" ] so often as I was writing about these female characters who love each other and hated each other and were sort of in love with each other.