“By the air which I breathe, and by the water which I drink, I will not endure to be blamed on account of this discourse.”

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”

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

“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at 4 o'clock in the morning.”

“Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.”

“I envy people who drink — at least they know what to blame everything on.”

“The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.”

“So I was drinking tequila, and I was drinking grappa, which is Italian for gasoline, and I was drinking Jägermeister, which I believe is the liquid equivalent of Wonder Woman's golden lasso, because it will make you tell anybody the truth for no reason whatsoever. "You have really bad skin. Thanks for the drink."”

“The water I breathe would drown the more evolved.”

“I said breathe. Not do a fish-out of-water imitation.”