Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon.

The two best times to fish is when it's raining and when it ain't.

Show me a man who fishes in winter, and I'll show you a fanatic. Actually, I'll get the better of the deal, because for sheer spectacle a fanatic doesn't hold a candle to a man who fishes in winter

What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.

Avoid the use of abusive words in communications that may switch off the attention of your mentor and your customers away.

Mrs. Reed grabbed Kayla's wrist. "Good. You haven't gotten that damned tattoo. Whatever you do, don't let them make you get it.

My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years.

Hopes, dreams, faith and a sense of mission enable us to open up our lives.

Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs.

One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the silence that preceded the poem.

A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.

I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro.

We could do it, you know.

The President is the symbol of who the people of the United States are. He is the person who stands for us in the eyes of the world and the eyes of our children.