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

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

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

The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.

My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw

The mountains paralleled the valley and the snowy peaks were extending with fall to the valley floor.

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.