I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.

There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.

A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart

Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.

Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.

I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except that we like it and it makes us think and feel.

A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.

... To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than catch half a dozen fish unseen until they take.

A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks

Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.

I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures.

You may have bought my body, you may even have the papers to prove it, but don't fool yourself into thinking for a moment that my heart and mind were included in the purchase.

...I looked in the window, wanting to stay - it rained, yet I remained...because you were so lovely...

If God had wanted me otherwise He would have created me otherwise.

The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.

My ambition is to not embarrass myself--which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.

I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.