Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.  (Taken from Maclean’s book, A River Runs Through It.)

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

Norman Maclean (1902-1990) was an American professor at the University of Chicago.  Later in his life, he became quite an accomplished author.  He spent part of his childhood in Missoula, Montana where his father was a Presbyterian minister.