The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.

The mountains paralleled the valley and the snowy peaks were extending with fall to the valley floor.

To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as Maynard Dixon. The great mood of his work is solitude, the effect of land and space on people. While his work stands perfectly well on its claims to beauty, it offers a spiritual view of the West indispensable to anyone who would understand it.

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw

Young anglers love new rivers the way they love the rest of their lives. Time does not seem to be of the essence and somewhere in the system is what they are looking for.

We both liked children; we just didn't want any ourselves. There were children everywhere, and we saw no reason to start our own brand. Young couples plunge into parenthood and about half the time they end up with some ghastly problem on their hands. We thought we'd leave that to others.