Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.

There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?