I love 'Capote. ' Huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman; if he's not my all-time favorite actor he's definitely in my top five. I just love him so much.
When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.
I am almost certain fishermen posess a peculiar bend to their makeup. Fisherman are optimists, and the fish in the future is always preferable to the fish at hand. Even the best fishermen catch fish only a small percentage of the time, which means we persevere in a sport that features failure as its main ingredient. Truly great days, when the fish hammer the fly as soon as it lands on the water are rare.
I live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and I spend a lot of time outdoors.
I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.
I learned to look up suddenly from a hatch or feeding frenzy and find myself momentarily removed from solid earth. I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself
As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
Small is good, but none is better.
There isn't [in new atheism]. Nothing that wasn't in Bertrand Russell or probably Robert Ingersoll. But I suppose it is more of a political effect, in that all these books happened to come out at the same time. I like to think that we have some influence.
Give someone responsibility and they will do their best. Make them accountable and they will do even better.