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

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

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.

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

Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous.

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.

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.