I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.
The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.
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.
After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.
The essence of sport is courage.
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.
Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.
Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.
Love yourself and your friends unconditionally.
The problem with tomorrow is that I have never seen a tomorrow. Tomorrow does not exist. Tomorrow only exist in the mind of dreamers and losers.