Jim Harrison

“There’s an absolute pleasure in being an outsider.”

“I write to find out what I'm thinking.”

“We are foolish to expect relationships to be easy.”

“The wilderness is not a landscape, it is a condition of the soul.”

“Death steals everything except our stories.”

“Maybe all you can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”

“The days are gods.”

“The simple fact is that literature saved my life.”

“The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.”

“We are wolves, which are wild dogs, and this is our hell. But we are also lions in wait.”

“Food is the only beautiful thing that truly nourishes.”

“The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you.”

“It's easy to get buried in the past when you've chosen that as your primary emotion.”

“The sea is the only thing that is still... wild.”

“Poetry, at its best, is the language of the soul.”

“Old age is a fucking shipwreck.”

“The world is a grand confusion.”