Top 15 Jim Harrison Quotes

I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

"Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, "Que pasa, baby?

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

Death steals everything except our stories.

Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.

Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone — rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.

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

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

The days are stacked against what we think we are.

I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow
by I don't know what.

"Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving
ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing
each other out. We set this house
on fire, forgetting that we live within.

(from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)"