“He had been looking like a dead fish. He now looked like a deader fish, one of last year's, cast up on some lonely beach and left there at the mercy of the wind and tides.”

“.. for the dead fish was striped like a cat and the sky was striped like the fish and the conch was whorled like an ear and the beach was ribbed like a dog's mouth and the movables in the surf splintered and crashed like the walls of Jericho.”

“The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They're just like dead fish washing up on the shores.”

“He's like a fish up a tree.”

“Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.”

“Einstein was just a genius of theoretical physics. If you introduced him to biology or chemistry, he would look like a fish trying to climb a tree.”

“…nobody has told the coelancath, a fish that lives off Madagascar and looks exactly like its ancestors of 300 million years ago, that it has broken some law by not evolving.”

“Papa had looked bad last time. This time he looked like Death's rectum.”

“Because he loves pussy. Except it smells like fish!”

“[Ralf Schumacher's] been in every gravel trap there is, more or less, this morning. It looked like he wanted to go to the beach all day.”