You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

In a life properly lived, you're a river.

Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.

Death steals everything except our stories.

Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

Any fool can make a rule and every fool will mind it.

Go and wake up your luck.

...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.

If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.

The subject comes first, the medium second.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.