276 Quotes by Jim Harrison

I’ve never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

My advice is, do not try to inhabit another’s soul. You have your own.

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.

The head’s a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don’t travel at all.

He had always thought that a Native American should have shot Robert Frost for the outrageous lie of the line “The land was ours before we were the land’s.” What a scandal that would be, America’s best-loved geezer falling in a battle over poetry.

That’s my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.

Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn’t comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.

There is the question of whether life is long enough to get over anything. I sat down on the ground to avoid tipping over from the enormity of it all.

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there’s a major explosion.