When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it.

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

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.

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