An old pond I used to sneak out to for fishin’ from the time I was about 16 until just a few years ago. Because I was one of the very few people to know about it, the bass bred unbothered, and grew into monsters.

I can’t go there anymore. Commercial expansion has destroyed it. The forest is all chopped down now and the land is owned by a car sales lot.

“Lorie darlin', life in San Francisco, you see, is still just life. If you want any one thing too badly, it's likely to turn out to be a disappointment. The only healthy way to live life is to learn to like all the little everyday things, like a sip of good whiskey in the evening, a soft bed, a glass of buttermilk, or a feisty gentleman like myself.”

-Augustus McCrae (Robert Duvall), Lonesome Dove