I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment.

I think people will be surprised at how fast they go next year. I do think world records will get broken next year.

Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.

The ocean is the lifeblood of our world.

I have always had a very natural connection to the water, and that connection stems from the ocean itself.

People should make a stand for the things they love and want to see survive infinite generations.

We can still maintain our coasts and oceans for the generations to come, who deserve what we have.

It is not who will eat beans, but who will pick it that is scarce.

Cycling, like masturbation, is fun and easy to do - sometimes all day long.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?

There's a lot more pressure when you're a medal favorite. Now, nobody has any expectations for me. Nobody knows what I can do, so I'm riding with nothing to lose.

The cemetery is my sense of comfort, my sanctuary in a world of darkness, the one piece of light that i have in my life.

I'm not intense at all. I'm always relaxed.

I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.

What you eat is not the goal. What you are is the goal.

I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.