Ned Merrill: 'Member how we used to take off our suits and swim for miles up that river? We just never got tired.
Stu Forsburgh: Yeah. We had nice, new, pink lungs in *those* days.
Ned Merrill: And the water up there. Remember? That transparent, light green water. It felt different. God, what a beautiful feeling. We could've swum around the world in those days.
Stu Forsburgh: That was before we ever touched a drink, or a cigarette.
Donald Westerhazy: Or a girl!


--Tony Bickley (as Donald Westerhazy) in The Swimmer