Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana.

Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.

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

The essence of sport is courage.

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.

By your late thirties the ground has begun to grow hard. It grows harder and harder until the day that it admits you.

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.