“Because, you see, he was not a person. He was a fish, which is what he had been all along. As a big fish, he could only eat smaller fish”

“Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.”

“No toys in the fish tank”

“Never again could he see a dogwood blossom or eat a fish without thinking of her.”

“One who sees inaction in action and action in inaction- he is a wise man.”

“The only way you can conquer me is through love and there I am gladly conquered”

“...-you know no one wanted to see the old boy go. I bet where ever he is, the fishing's good" "Given his surely behavior, the fish might be fried where he is,”