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

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 love of nature begins with the love for God

How dare you say it's nothing to me?Baby, you're the only light I ever saw.

Could we possible manage the next phase of human history without first dealing with this penchant for dehumanizing the adversary?

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

[The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute . . .

Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.

Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?

I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.