276 Quotes by Jim Harrison

The idea is to eat well and not die from it – for the simple reason that that would be the end of my eating.

He picked up Samuel’s saddle as if he were picking up doom herself, doom always owning the furthest, darkest reaches of the feminine gender. Pandora, Medusa, the Bacchantes, the Furies, are female though small goddesses beyond sexual notions. Who reasons death anymore than they can weigh the earth or the heart of beauty?

Everyone wishes a measure of mystery in their life that they have done nothing in particular to deserve.

I’m actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it’s the place I know best.

Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road – Only wakes upon the sea.

Yeah, but now suddenly – you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

I’ve been lucky to spend a life pretty close to the earth up here in the north. I learned in those three days that the earth is so much more than I ever thought it was. It was a gift indeed to see all sides of everything at once. This makes it real hard to say good-bye. My family will be with me just like that old raven falling slowly down through the tree.

To the white people, among whom I helplessly number myself, life is a very long and high set of stairs, but to my mother life was a river, a slow and stately wind across the sky, an endless sea of grass.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it’s about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.