"At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding."

- Norman Maclean

"Many of us probably would be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect."

- Norman Maclean

"There's certainly something in fishing that makes a man feel he is doing right; I can't explain it, but it's very pleasant."

- Norman Maclean

"If our father had his say, nobody who did not know how to catch a fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him."

- Norman Maclean

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

- Norman Maclean