I don't use deodorant. If you drink enough water, you shouldn't have to. I think I smell pretty good without it.

My life is pretty hectic, but I'm really into it.

Time goes a lot quicker when the work is a lot more enjoyable.

I'm not immune to the charms of the female form. And when I was 17 and I spent every spare minute surfing, most of the girls we hung out with would be topless.

I didn't grow up with money, but I grew up with a lot of space. All I did was surf. I was committed to the ocean. That's one thing about Australians; we have the capacity to embrace life.

I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.

I think my kids are pretty well-rounded citizens of the world.

Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.

I don't like fancy fiddly girlie stuff.

I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work.

If you can't be proud of what you do, go and sell shoes. Do something else.

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

Authors are the closest thing man would come to understanding God. It is a remarkable thing to conjure up a life and create its story.

There is often in people to whom "the worst" has happened an almost transcendent freedom for they have faced "the worst" and survived it.

Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.

I think everything happens as it's supposed to. I don't want to force anything. I want it to be so authentic that it's seamless.

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining.

Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.

There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.