Most fishermen use the double haul to throw their casting mistakes further.

There's more B.S. in fly fishing than there is in a Kansas feedlot.

Ignore the people who advise you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad!

At least I don't look like a Christmas tree.""You look like the star atop the tree.

There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.

I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

Money is what you'd get on beautifully without if only other people weren't so crazy about it.

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S. military.

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.