“Don't people drown their sorrows in things like scotch? Not strawberry whatever-it's-called.”
“They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning.”
“People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.”
“People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.”
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
“Some people, I saw, had drowned right away, and some people were drowning in slow motion, drowning a little bit at a time, and would be drowning for years. And some people, like Mick, had always been drowning, they just didn’t know what to call it until now.”