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.

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.

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.

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

Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana.

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

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.