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
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
Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
