Humour's the pay-off for all that existential horror.

There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind me as the sun tracks down to the sea. I have my bearings.

The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.

For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to claim as it is to offer.

We rise to a challenge and set a course. We take a decision. You put your mind to something. Just deciding to do it gets you halfway there. Daring to try.

The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.

I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet.

Overfishing is an obvious threat to our capacity to feed ourselves.

It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.

People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.

I think a smile can make your whole body. Models, they look fabulous, but they don't smile, and they look so mad.

A secretary is not a thing Wound by key, pulled by string. Her pad is to write in, And not spend the night in, If that's what you plan to enjoy.

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.

And there's no better way to thaw a face, as it turns out, than with another face.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

It's never fun to break someone's heart, that's so sad.

I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

Don't hate the circumstance, you may miss the blessing

Surfing frees everything up. It's just the best soul fix. Life should be stress free, and that's what surfing is all about.