I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness.

Generally, we are united in the belief that all rod design has been progressive and that the ideas about fly rods in the past were so bad as to make it amazing that people were able to fish at all.

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

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.

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

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.