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

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.

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 had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by.

We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.

Silence can be lovely or disturbing, depending on the source.

Remember, as a believer, you are already in God’s kingdom, even if you are still standing on this earth.

People say it's easy to make fun of retarded people, but it's not. You really have to explain it to them.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.

Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.

Texting and driving at the same time is like jerking off and juggling at the same time. Too many balls in the air, if you catch my drift.

If you ever start to feel good about yourself... .... they have this thing called the internet.