I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

They can fish for catfish for all I care, as long as they fill up our hotels.

The catfish is kind of like the bluegill. And they're the easiest fish to catch that has any size to it.