Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.

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

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

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.

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

I may be the wrong person for my life.

In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I'm going to start on that when I am much too old to do any of the two thousand things I can think of that are more fun than screening insects in cold running water