“Asking a storyteller not to embellish is like asking a fish to give up water.”

“You're dog water, boxed like a fish. I set this up and you lost so fast.”

“I can talk to fish!" Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner," Fang said, joining us.”

“I was under the stars, like a fish is under water.”

“That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.”

“445. A great ship askes deepe waters.”

“I don't believe in this nonsense about time. Time is just common, it's like water for a fish. Everybody's in this water, nobody gets out of it, or if he does the same thing happens to him that happens to the fish, he dies. And you know what happens in this water, time? The big fish eat the little fish. That's all. The big fish eat the little fish and the ocean doesn't care.”

“"You asking me the way?" "Yes," I said, "since I can't find it myself." "Give it up! Give it up!" said he, and turned with a sudden jerk, like someone who wants to be alone with his laughter.”

“I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.”

“Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean”