I like young girls. Their stories are shorter.

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

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

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

To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as Maynard Dixon. The great mood of his work is solitude, the effect of land and space on people. While his work stands perfectly well on its claims to beauty, it offers a spiritual view of the West indispensable to anyone who would understand it.

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.

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.