“You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot.”

“Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!""No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?""Not such a waste of time as talking to you!”

“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”

“Here's the thing: this eel spends its entire life trying to find a home, and what do you think women have inside them? Caves, where the eels like to live...when they find a cave they like, the wriggle around inside it for a while to be sure that...well, to be sure it's a nice cave, I suppose. And when they've made up their minds that it's comfortable, they mark the cave as their territory...by spitting.”

“Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond!”

“We git six across the backseat and shiver together, arms and legs wrapped like eels around each other.”