When I was young, a teacher had forbidden me to say "more perfect" because she said if a thing is perfect it can't be more so. But by now I had seen enough of life to have regained my confidence in it.

How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions.

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

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

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.

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

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