To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as Maynard Dixon. The great mood of his work is solitude, the effect of land and space on people.… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
“She ate her breakfast in silence, then drove downtown in weather so lowering the streetlights seemed decapitated. This was when you could discover if… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
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… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
“That food was so bad I can't wait for it to become a turd and leave me.” — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
“They were unironic enthusiasts for all the mass pleasures the culture offered: television, NASCAR, cruises, Disney World, sports, celebrity gossip, and local politics.” — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
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… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
By your late thirties the ground has begun to grow hard. It grows harder and harder until the day that it admits you. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
