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

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

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 like young girls. Their stories are shorter.

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

We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out.

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