“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!”
“No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.”
“Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.”
“Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that.”
“I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.”
“You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot.”