There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.

Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife.

Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.

I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.

There is no subsititue for fishing sense, and if a man doesn't have it, verily, he may cast like an angel and still use his creel largely to transport sandwiches and beer

Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.

Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed

The best time to go fishing is when you can get away.

To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.

The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.

One of the first rules in fishing is that there are few rules in fishing that resourceful trout do not manage to break.

Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.

My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.

I'm in a mood, Dave. A bad mood, a very bad mood! I was fired from my ice cream truck job today! No more Fudgicles!

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.

When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.

I thought I would be more inspired to have all these new feelings to talk about, but I really just want to hang out with my daughter.

[T]here's nobody Black in charge of anything in Hollywood.

All middle men are bad.

There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.