Quotes from David James

To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, "May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me.

A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer.

Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

Life is short. It's God's fault. Sorry.

I felt a rush of trust--felt that life might be not just tolerable but beautiful, if I could only remember to find the bare Present.