“Down the five ill-disposed wings of Nesfield University, vaulted, machine-carved, echoing and damp, surged conflicting columns of adolescent humanity, a rout of jostling automotive sponges hurried from pool to pool of a knowledge codified, timetabled and approved.”

“All I'm saying is: if there's a pool and people are in the pool and you're not in the pool, you want to be in the pool just like those people in the pool. It's just a fact of nature.”

“How frail the human heart must be―a mirrored pool of thought.”

“Only the most ignorant still believe, like Saint Augustine, that time is a river. We others know it is a delta: that it branches out and seeks new routes, that it rejoins itself only to seek a thousand new courses. Some may be waterfalls, some no more than little stagnant pools passed by the tide, forever still...This is one of those times. A pool. I sink down in it. I want to stay forever in this water.”

“It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.”

“Nevertheless, an Olympic pool is an Olympic pool, touched by immortal glory.”