“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”

“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”

“If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.”

“When swimming into a dark tunnel, there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back. your choice is to swim forward into the unknown…. and pray for an exit”

“Go to sleep, you stunning sky, gently creep, cunning by
A quiet hum is amplified by your thumb that you suck dry
A hundred raging waters snare the lonely sigh
Hold your breath and clasp at Cassiopeia.”

“Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.”

“You don’t protest air pollution by holding your breath.”

“We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.”

“You’re falling now. You’re swimming. This is not
          harmless. You are not
                    breathing.”

“Deep water is what I am wont to swim in.”