“Anyone can be a fisherman in May.”

“Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.”

“You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?”

“Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.”

“You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.”

“I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.”

“If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.”