79 Quotes by Thomas McGuane

My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw.

Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

I may be the wrong person for my life.

It don’t do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity’s demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out.

You can’t say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it’s just what the deadbeat ordered.

I like young girls. Their stories are shorter.

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

I’d be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness.