All there is to thinking,” he said, “is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren't noticing which makes you see something … - Norman Maclean

Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.

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 basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

You have never really seen an ass until you have seen two sunburned asses on a sandbar in the middle of a river.