“I am a fish.”

“I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?”

“Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.”

“When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.”

“I often went fishing up in Maine during the summer. Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn’t think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish and said: "Wouldn't you like to have that?"”

“I want to get out in the water. I wanted to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.”

“Didn't I tell you?
I am an ocean, you are a fish;
do not go to the dry land,
it is me, who is your comforting body of water.”

“If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.”

“A fish swims through the sea
While the sea is in a certain sense,
Contained within the fish!
Oh, what am I to think
Of what the writing of a thousand lifetimes
Could not explain
If all the forest trees were pens
And all the oceans - ink?”

“I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.”