Generally, we are united in the belief that all rod design has been progressive and that the ideas about fly rods in the past were so bad as to make it amazing that people were able to fish at all.

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.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Film is the ultimate canvas, the elixir of art, and the magic of life.

We ardently desire to take down our masks and say to the world, “This is who I am…and I am okay.” This is simple…not easy.

Choosing beliefs freely is not what rational minds do.

The completion is always more difficult that the beginning

When I hear a person talking about political solutions, I know I am not listening to a serious person.

We ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal.

I'm one of the luckiest people on Earth.

Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.