The mountains paralleled the valley and the snowy peaks were extending with fall to the valley floor.

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness.

The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.

Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw

I may be the wrong person for my life.

Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps

The only consent hinge in life is that everyhin is changing. And that's a little scary, but it means that hints can't be bad or hard forever.

I'm interested in the crevices, and the grotesque, and the unsavory. That started out when I was young... I've never quite been able to shake that.

I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.

Creating an environment musically that shows that we all belong together is what I'm interested in doing, and that happened really early on.

You know your general purpose is to become a Co-worker with God. So how do you identify your personal goal?

I'd like to have stayed in the Scouts beyond the age of 12.

Admite the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord.

Jean-Baptiste Mondino: "She's John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the same time".

One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.