I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.

Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.

I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.

The best time to go fishing is when you can

People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other fishermen are called crackpot fishermen. This is confusing.

...there are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream.

Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a worm-fisherman in half, each half will grow into a complete fisherman. For which we should all be eternally grateful.

Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off.

The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells

Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . .

... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.

Follow your passion.It will lead you to great places.

Nobody should have to choose between a cold heart and a dead heart.

Where we love is home

Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.

Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.

There is nothing as relaxing as being out on the open sea, listening to the waves and the wind and the sails and voices downstairs yelling "HOW DO YOU FLUSH THESE TOILETS?"

Who dat dere's gunna beat dat team? Who Dat? Who dat?

I can't see what God's plan is. I just know I've got to live with it.

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

Your talent makes you who you are. You should be proud of it.