"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."
"Everyone should believe in something; I believe I’ll go fishing."
-Henry David Thoreau
Kind of a long one but I finally sat down and read A River Runs Through It last month.
"Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise. 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."
-Norman Maclean