The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

- Jim Harrison

I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

- Jim Harrison

I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.

- Jim Harrison

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

- Jim Harrison

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

- Jim Harrison

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.

- Jim Harrison

Death steals everything except our stories.

- Jim Harrison

Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.

- Jim Harrison

The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.

- Jim Harrison