To him, all good things — trout as well as eternal salvation — come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy. - Norman Maclean

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.

It is very important to a lot of people to make unmistakably clear to themselves and to the universe that they love the universe but are not intimidated by it and will not be shaken by it, no matter what it has in store. Moreover, they demand something from themselves early in life that can be taken ever after as a demonstration of this abiding feeling.

Eventually the watcher joined the river, and there was only one of us. I believe it was the river.