“Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.”
“I shouldn't have been there. I should never have been born.”
“He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.'I lean over. My hair smothers him.'Then you should never have been born,' I say.”
“Why should quiet ruminants as you and I have been born in such a ghastly age? ”
“I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination”
“Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.”