“This is no time for drinking a mug of water - which you would do nowhere else in the world. A mug of water! You just don't drink water from mugs, do ya? Except on the telly. Water out of a mug! Should be a hot drink... mug of water.”

“He took a sip of my father’s weak coffee and spit it back into the mug. "This shit’s like making love in a canoe.""Excuse me?""It’s fucking near water.”

“Boil your drinking water, and drink the water surrounding you in your bathtub.”

“... And drinking neat liquor from the bottle, with all my long hair and my shirt undone and my beads, not so much the lizard king, more a gecko duchess, I fitted in nicely with their idea of what a creative person should be.”

“Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?”

“Nanny Ogg could see the future in the froth on a beer mug. It invariably showed that she was going to enjoy a refreshing drink which she almost certainly was not going to pay for.”

“Water, water everywhereNor any drop to drink.”