Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music relationships being a good person loving people the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get.

On the whole human beings want to be good but not too good and not quite all the time.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole Whose body Nature is and God the soul.

That God does not exist I cannot deny That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because like Spinoza's God it won't love us in return.