Quotes from Jim Harrison

Of course there is nothing so immediately rewarded in America, in the arts, entertainment, or public life, as a shrill and limited consciousness.

I caught myself being drawn ceaselessly back into a past that I wished mightily to emerge from -- I had come to know only recently that one *could* emerge without forgetting, and that to remember need not be to suffocate.

The world, simply enough, became as beautiful as it does to many children waking on a summer morning.

damn the world and its wars, she thought. Those who start the wars never die in them. She packed hastily, had supper with Winnie

I don't trust anybody that doesn't do good work. I don't give them any credibility. If they can't write, why should I believe anything they have to say?

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

Death steals everything except our stories.

I've always been very much attracted to a character that's actually free.

The idea is to eat well and not die from it - for the simple reason that that would be the end of your eating.

Nothing in the world causes more problems than concepts of ethnic virtue. It's irrelevant.

I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.