“There’s an old adage: the sensation of drowning reminds you of everything you ever knew about swimming.”

“If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.”

“Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.”

“Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.”

“I remember a story I once heard about drowning: that when you fall into cold water it's not that you drown right away but that the cold disorients you and makes you think that down is up and up is down, so you may be swimming, swimming, swimming for your life in the wrong direction, all the way toward the bottom until you sink. That's how I feel, as though everything has been turned around.”

“He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.”