I love my work but do not know how I write it.

Far away Tongariro! Green - white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift cold waters of this most beautiful and famous of trout streams. It is something to have striven. It is much to have kept your word.

If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger; To smile when tears are close; To resist disease and evil men and base instincts; To hate hate and to love love; To go on when it would seen good to die; To look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great.

Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.