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.
The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.
Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.
Barring love I’ll take my life in large doses alone – rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.
Death steals everything except our stories.
I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.
Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.
Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
I’m hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don’t know what.
Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That’s the main content. The biggest thing in people’s lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.
Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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.
Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. – True North.
Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn’t comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.
One of the curious effects of a bad hangover is that you think you’re wrong whether you are or not. Not wrong in particulars, but wrong in general, wrong about everything.
A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.
We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.
I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.