Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.
If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.
I grew up in Texas in a family that fished and hunted, so I've shot guns as a kid.
My New Year's Eve is always 2 July, the night before my birthday. That's the night I make my resolutions. And this year scares the life out of me, because no matter how successful, how good things appear, there is always a deep core of failure within me, although I am trying to deal with it. My biggest fear, this coming year, is that I will be waking up alone. It makes me wonder how many bodies will be fished out of the Thames, how many decaying corpses will be found in one-room flats. I'm just being realistic.
I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.
We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.
