There are always greater fish than you have caught, always the lure of greater task and achievement, always the inspiration to seek, to endure, t….

I need this wild life, this freedom..

Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter..

It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so..

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him..

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

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired..

What is writing but an expression of my own life?.

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start..

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply..

At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be sl….

Before exulatation had vanished, I felt as if I had been granted a marvellous privilege. Out of the inscrutable waters a beautiful fish had somehow l….

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

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 tea….

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect..

Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time..

Work is my salvation. It changes my moods..

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death..

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things..

I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies..

Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is..