The essence of sport is courage.

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.

Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

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.

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

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.