We both liked children; we just didn't want any ourselves. There were children everywhere, and we saw no reason to start our own brand. Young couples plunge into parenthood and about half the time they end up with some ghastly problem on their hands. We thought we'd leave that to others.

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something like this suggests what fishing ought to be about: using the ceremony of our sport and passion to arouse greater reverberations within ourselves.

Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana.

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

Generally, we are united in the belief that all rod design has been progressive and that the ideas about fly rods in the past were so bad as to make it amazing that people were able to fish at all.