One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing

Help is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.

So it is that we can seldom help anybody. Either we don't know what part to give or maybe we don't like to give any part of ourselves. Then, more often than not, the part that is needed is not wanted. And even more often, we do not have the part that is needed.

Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.

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

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

...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.