“One of the hardest and truest things a grown-up learns is that sometimes it's not okay.”

“But when I make a good [taxidermy] mount I feel like I beat God in a small way. As though the Almighty said, Let such critter be dead, and I said, 'Fuck You, he can still play the banjo.”

“That was a mean thought, and not funny at all. I let it turn to sand and blow out of my head.”

“Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.”

“Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burnèd is Apollo's laurel-bough,That sometime grew within this learnèd man.”

“We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.”

“In life you do things without thinking sometimes it can work out sometimes it don't but in the end its just life get on with it and don't let it hold you back.”