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

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.

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

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

The most beautiful girl on earth is the one with a golden heart

When you want something badly enough it’s amazing what you’ll ignore.

Maybe it's because he never had any control over what was happening to him as a boy. Being late was somehow a way of taking charge.

I've been called worse on the basketball court.

I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us.

Note to self: Don't get on Veritas's bad side. She holds a grudge for centuries.

But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be.

Even a brick wants to be something

I don't like things to be static when I'm working.

I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life I'd be Loretta Lynn.