“Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.”

Norman Maclean

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

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 probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers,"poss...”

Norman Maclean

“Scholars are still in search of the exact meaning of certain speeches in each of Shakespeare’s great tragedies — and we should like to assume that those who saw these plays for the first time did not ...”

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 father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherm...”

Norman Maclean