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.

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

five severed fingers do not make a hand

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

Hath any wronged thee? be bravely revenged; slight it, and the work is begun; forgive it, and it is finished; he is below himself that is not above an injury.

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.

Playing music to me is as close to having super powers as you can have.

Being barefoot makes me feel vulnerable.

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

I was drifting away like a drop in the ocean, and now I realize that nothing has been as beautiful as when I saw heaven's skies.