“5744. Wine hath drowned more Men than the Sea.”

“He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”

“Now drown care in wine.”
Nunc vino pellite curas.

“I've fought with men and gods, I've weighed them well and found
the sea more firm than earth, the air more firm than sea,
and man's impalpable soul still yet more firm than air!”

“They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”

“Many years ago I was a boy drowning in the sea. I am always drowning in the sea… down amongst the dead men, deep down. There is a peace in the sea back down to our origins… when the last man has taken his breath the sea will still be remaining. It washes everything clean. It holds within it forever the boy suspended in its body and the streaming hair and the open eyes.”

“You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?”

“I am drowning, my dear, in seas of fire.”

“The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.”

“A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.”