Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.
An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.
Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.
Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.
The essence of sport is courage.
The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.