The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana.

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

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

The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana.

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

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

My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.