Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

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

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

Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

The essence of sport is courage.

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

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