Flaxfield died on a Friday which was a shame, because he always ate a trout for dinner on Friday, and it was his favourite.

The fish does not know it is wet. America is immersed in violence. The violence is in our souls. The enemy is within.

The sides of buildings should be like the tops of lakes. I’d fish through your window hoping to catch a smile.

I waste more time trying to save time than I would if I were merely inefficient. One woman told me I make love like a fish in the desert, and I believed her, because she...

Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure...

At the last moment, the fish and I exchange a troubled glance. The murrel seems to be demanding an explanation. Alas, I am in no position to start justifying the unusual treatment. What comes next...

A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.

Whole trees are good fishing nets. I fish like I farm.

I planted the seed in her imagination, and then I farmed it. Like a fisherman.

Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I’m never bored. I’ve never been bored.

You must be strong in March, when the fish are down.

Yeah, there is something in the water. They’re called fish. They grow on land, you moron.

But it hadn’t just been Sebastian who had been watching me. Rather, it had been tribes of merman and mermaids, who had been curious about this newcomer in town that could outswim any school of...

I simply ate a fish-head, but fish-heads won’t fillme now. Your attention is a fish-head,so throw it back into my new body, backinto the body climbing the stairs.

I knew I was a grain of sand in the vast desert that never ended and he was a sparkling star in the sky. I was a fish who couldn’t breathe in air and had...

I am a fisherman among farmers, and as a farmer what I grow is tired of waiting for her to love me.

I’m as efficient as a fish ant, I’m as mythical as a productive government employee, and I’m the kind of lover your mother would approve of. Ask her—she’ll tell you how good I am in...

As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one’s fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip...

I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don’t have any pets now.

We view this as proof positive that spill helps fish.

There’s a traffic jam in the stream. I’d better go fish up a solution. Too bad I left my tackle box at the football stadium, along with all the other worms.

This work is the link between my Dear Natalie piece and my upcoming Agatha work. It bridges that lapse in time and shows how my thinking has changed. It shows me telling a story through...

I think if you’re a painter, you paint; if you’re a golfer, you golf; if you’re a fisherman, you fish; if you’re a musician, you play music.

I was on my way to being on my way when I noticed a rainbow. That’s when I got out my fishing net to try to catch some trout.

Water is central to Jacksonville, and natives think of rivers as roads. Why, just the other day I was driving on the interstate, and I was being tailgated by a lunatic in a canoe. So...

Narissa, let me take you away to a world that you have never known to exist.

We’re talking about a resource that is in dramatic need of monitoring and policing. The wild ground that fish cops run is a mecca for lawbreakers because they feel they’re out of the view of...

Give a man a fish shop and he’ll flounder.Teach a man to manage a fish shop, and he’ll learn to fill it!

What’s the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin.

We run into these streaks. Fish go deep and feed at night.

A fish tank is just interactive television for cats.

I want the white one

I do not believe in eating fish hot. People always insist on hot fish, but that leaves it dried out.

We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the ability to fly as morally valuable per se. If we were fish, we...

All men are equal before fish.

Don’t be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.

Of all the fish, in all the bars in the world, she had to not walk into mine. Maybe my love isn’t evolved enough for her.

Love is a speedy bird that looks like a fish. If you catch one in the sky, try not to drown.

I am a pisces, a fish out of water, searching for a way back home.

She’d also called me brave…unless she was talking to the catfish.