Boat Quote by Thomas McGuane

The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.

— Thomas McGuane

“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

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

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

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

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

— Thomas McGuane

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

— Thomas McGuane

“That food was so bad I can't wait for it to become a turd and leave me.”

— Thomas McGuane

“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

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

— Thomas McGuane

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

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