If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong.

I necessarily fear change except that it's so seldom for the better. It's just that I can live with any number of things going straight to hell as long as these streams continue to hold up. If this amounts to living in a fool's paradise, don't waste your time trying to explain that to the fool.

I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution.

Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.

We do have to think seriously about conservation now, although it is chilling to realize there are catch-and-release fishermen alive today who don't know how to clean and fry a fish.

I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them.

Okay, I'm in the tampon aisle, but I don't see it.