It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.

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

In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I'm going to start on that when I am much too old to do any of the two thousand things I can think of that are more fun than screening insects in cold running water

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

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.

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.