. . . that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.
The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.
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.
People piss you off but its always important to forgive and forget.
Feel your intentions in your heart. Feel not what your mind tells you, but what your heart tells you.
Inside every believe, there's a lie.
My childhood was marked by the great fear of nuclear holocaust. We practiced our Civil Defense Drills, lining up in hallways, curled to the floor, but we knew we'd die or, worse, survive only to suffer radiation and slow death.