It would be hard to know what gigantic proportion of human life is spent in this same ratio of years under water on legs to one premature, exhausted … - 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 complete understanding.

Painted on one side of our Sunday school wall were the words, God is Love. We always assumed that these three words were spoken directly to the four of us in our family and had no reference to the world outside, which my brother and I soon discovered was full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the farther one gets from Missoula, Montana.

That's how you know when you have thought too much — when you become a dialogue between You'll probably lose and You're sure to lose.