"But years ago I had known the river when it flowed through this now dry channel, so I could enliven its stony remains with the waters of memory."

"When you are in your teens-maybe throughout your life-being three years older than your brother often makes you feel he is a boy."
"I also became the river by knowing how it was made."
"You wouldn't even have seen the fish in all that foam if you hadn't first thought he would be there."