I am haunted by waters.

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 teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.

The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

You have to go through ups and downs. Mistakes turn into lessons.

Agree with an idiot and you're only one step away from turning into one yourself.

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

In a lot of minds, God is big enough to raise dead people, but He's not big enough to deal with our running.

One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.

[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928)

Spirituality is a harmonious blend of outer silence and inner celebration; and also inner silence and outer celebration!

Expose yourself as you are without trying to be someone else.