I eat green ants often enough. They are wonderful. The trick is to squash them before you eat them, otherwise they bite your tongue and it ruins the experience.

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.

No moment is too small to claim. Strung together, moments fashion a life.

Dealing with pain for surviving on this thirsty concrete

Diplomacy - the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

You ever talk about a movie with someone that read the book? They're always so condescending. 'Ah, the book was much better than the movie.' Oh really? What I enjoyed about the movie: no reading.

Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth.

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.

Never try to take a fortified hill, especially if the Army on top is bigger than you are