“I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present. ”
“She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.”
“I can't swim in a sea of mediocrity and pretend I'm not drowning.”
“I felt an urge to conquer this new village.”
“Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.”
“I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less an urge to put an end to myself - simply an urge not to be. This disgusting, hostile and unlovely world was not made for me, nor I for it.”