Fly fishing is the most beautiful way of trying to catch a fish; not the most efficient, just as ballet is the most beautiful way of moving the body …

- Howell Raines

When I am home alone I like to scatter my tackle across the floor and play with it. I may pretend I am working on it, performing preventative mainten…

- Howell Raines

Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.

- Howell Raines

I have learned that I am also a person who has to be able to go fishing whenever I can and for as long as I want to go. It is a silly thing, but ther…

- Howell Raines

I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair.

- Howell Raines

Frankly, no newspaper is set up to monitor for cheats and fabricators.

- Howell Raines

Fish in the water represent pure potential. If the water is not clear, we do not know if they exist at all. To get them to bite something connected t…

- Howell Raines

Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting.

- Howell Raines

For me, fishing and journalism touched the same places in my head. In comparison with that of poets, the fly fishers' and the journalists' experience…

- Howell Raines