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

Death steals everything except our stories.

- 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

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

- Jim Harrison

We Are All One. When we allow ourselves to become aware of this statement in its purest form, we open the doors to reveal the oneness of being. Using…

- 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