Given free rein, our imagination can get infinite.

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.

take what you can from your dreamsMake them real as anythingIt takes the work out of the courage

the siren song/called silence

Dignity impacts everything in your life. It affects the quality of your internal world for how you see, feel, and think about yourself.

A man is a person who will pay two dollars for a one-dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two-dollar item she doesn't want.

The first song I wrote was called "You" and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist. I remember them all because I used to always write terrible poetry. I keep all my notebooks.

And as far as actors go, Peter Sellers is my all-time favorite.

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind

Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

God gave Davie Cooper a talent. He would not be disappointed with how it was used