I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

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.

Don’t be such a dumbass, Gabe. Koalas don’t travel in herds. They move in heaps. Much like emus move in ripples, and kangaroos travel in photo-ops.

It might not be rational, but I am terrified of getting stuck in an elevator with a bear.

The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss.

For anyone to achieve something, he will have to show a little courage. You're only on this earth once. You must give it all you've got.

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.

It looks like Rudy Giuliani is out of the race. Finally, a Republican with an exit strategy.

Just make sure your children hate authority and they'll do fine.

Imagination labors best in distant fields.

0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity.

The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.