Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something like this suggests what fishing ought to be about: using the ceremony of our sport and passion to arouse greater reverberations within ourselves.

We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out.

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

Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous.

I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by.

It's funny, but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never know when it will befall you.