Generally, we are united in the belief that all rod design has been progressive and that the ideas about fly rods in the past were so bad as to make it amazing that people were able to fish at all.

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

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

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

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.

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

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