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.
Thomas McGuaneIt's funny, but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never know when it will befall you.
Thomas McGuaneFishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.
Thomas McGuaneBy your late thirties the ground has begun to grow hard. It grows harder and harder until the day that it admits you.
Thomas McGuaneTo 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.
Thomas McGuane