"At a high level of universality, to write anything well, whether it be intellectual or imaginative, is to assume at l…"

"Scholars are still in search of the exact meaning of certain speeches in each of Shakespeare’s great tragedies — and …"

"In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rive…"

"As a Scot and a Presbyterian, my father believed that man by nature was a mess and had fallen from an original state …"

"My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things — trout as well as …"

"Painted on one side of our Sunday school wall were the words, God is Love. We always assumed that these three words w…"

"Help," he said "is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly."

"One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the autho…"

"It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us."

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