“Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat. ”
“You all know we are only passing by. We only walk over these stones a few times, our boats float a little while and then they have to sink. The water is a dark flower and a fisherman is a bee in the heart of her.”
“Your boat's not like to sink, I don't think. Boats only sink when I'm aboard.”
“Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.”
“Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.”
“Life is a river,' he once told me, 'and we all have to find a boat that floats.”