“Cool! Now I can steal some rich old coot's Ferrari and go fishing for marlin with the same piece of jewelry.”

“There's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.”

“Her whisper was, Lyman thought, like a Marlin ripping all the line out of a fishing rod.”

“Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.”

“Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn’t. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. 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 the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.I am haunted by waters.”

“Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.”