We can love completely what we cannot completely understand.

- Norman Maclean

Poets talk about "spots of time", but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of tim…

- Norman Maclean

All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.

- Norman Maclean

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 comp…

- Norman Maclean

Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probabl…

- Norman Maclean

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

- Norman Maclean

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basemen…

- Norman Maclean

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

- Norman Maclean

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our f…

- Norman Maclean