The worst part of losing good fish is that you cannot release them. They tailwalk across the back of your mind for days.

The thrill of a fish at the end of the line, that thing that sparks from the dark water to spinal cord, is a vestige of an archetypal joy that has to do with sustenance, material and spiritual.

Catch-and-release fishing is an ecological necessity, not my preference. The practice smacks of bad faith, an inauthentic act.

Death is but a dream and life is merely the daydream of death.

I cannot understand how a man can appear in print claiming to disbelieve everything that he presupposes when he puts on the surplice. I feel it is a form of prostitution.

It never ceases to amaze me the lengths that some people will go to to try and speak to me or meet me.

Transparency is the new objectivity.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

If one has an enlighened teacher and you come to this person with love, they will show you the ways of love.

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

Nowhere is it more true that "prevention is better than cure," than in the case of Parasitic Diseases.

The Britain I love works with its friends and neighbours it doesn't walk away from them.

I find that I have no problem getting a table at a restaurant when I walk in.