“The trout is still with me, as are my memories. The future is somewhere between these two forces, but it lives in mystery. The river records to trail behind or before me, and covers everything as i...”

“...returning to nature has been a dream present in the minds of every generation since mankind first left nature.”

“I often wonder what happened to those few I spent my youth in battle beside, those select individuals whom I was drawn to simply by coincidence, whom I joined forces with against an unknown future ...”

“I was disoriented by the idea that men should ever leave the forest.”

“Can you imagine a scenario, given our present circumstances, in which human life will actually survive and be here in a thousand years?”

“It occurred to me that no words by the tongue of man can express the simplicities of a quiet land, so I returned to the river.”

“The stars were better company anyway. They were very beautiful, and they almost never snored.”

“Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business. ”

“Proprio un elfo snob doveva toccarmi in sorte? le rispose divertito. Allora, non mi rimane altra scelta che portarti in campeggio, prima o poi, o in canoa o a fare una nuotata nel lago.Lei lo fiss ...”

“There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.”

“He can't have gone, he said "Christ know he can't have gone. He's making a turn. Maybe he has been hooked before and her remembers something of it." The he felt the gentle touch on the line and he ...”

“Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.”

“In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust anyone.”

“No one knew much about the Twenty-Eighth Infantry. It was not a glamour outfit. They knew about the Big Red One and the Screaming Eagles, about the Eighty-Second Airborne and Hell On Wheels, but no...”

“I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.”