J. K. Maclean Quotes

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.

All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect

The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana.

I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect.

We can love completely what we cannot completely understand.

One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing

A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.

When exhausted and feeling sorry for yourself, at least change your socks.

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

Help is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.

It was so fun. Being ahead and still being relaxed, we got to chill out.

When a smile touches our hearts. When the forest stills us to peace. When music moves us to rapture. When we really love, laugh or dance with joy. We are at one with the Angels.

One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it is only a floating ash.

If I am an empress, he is the only man worthy of being my emperor.

You should see what she’s wearing, Callie. It’s velvet. Canary yellow velvet. Turban to match. She looks like a furry banana.

An interest in the brain requires no justification other than a curiosity to know why we are here, what we are doing here, and where we are going.

I am haunted by waters.

...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.

I knew that, when needed, mountains would move for me.

We judge everything as good or evil and forget that resistance, pain and difficulties are there so we can learn when we leave balance.

My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

Stress is caused by our resistance to what already is. Even our difficulties we need to accept. My greatest wish is to do God's will.

He called me a pie!” she announced, defensively. There was a pause. “Wait. That’s not right.” “A tart?” “Yes! That’s it!

His four year contract renewal: As always, I remain hopeful that Don Cherry won't be offered the same length contract.

Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.

Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand when I was young are dead, but I still reach out to them.

The key is love, the action is service, and the joy is knowing the grandeur that is God in us and in everything.

A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help.

If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.

If there ever was a time in our evolution of consciousness it is now—the ground is prepared for this planting.

I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.

I've always thought that we have to bring our spirituality into our everyday life such as even brushing our teeth with God.

Our job is not to worship history and culture like fetishes, but to feed them into our living, creative stream of personal life for spiritual and intellectual reprocessing.

I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.

Maybe I don't know what love is, but it isn't this.

Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.

Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.

It is especially taboo for a wine writer to admit that he or she likes the buzz. But wine is a full sensory experience. It's not just tasting notes.

I have learned that most of us must face some form of challenge in our lives. But without hardship, we wouldn’t learn and grow.

I've also found that at the bottom of all of these qualities is love. If you have enough love you have enough courage, enough love then you have patience.

I've loved him for a decade. And I had him for one day before I made a complete and utter mess of things. Or he did. I'm still not sure about that.

Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.

Men are not nearly as evolved as women are, nor as intelligent, evidently

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.