I took up windsurfing to explore my own courage.

Like Salvador Dali’s paintings of watches melting in the sand, time wanders at its own curious pace whenever you’re on vacation in a foreign country.

Find a way to learn something from every disappointment.

Barely halfway back, exhaustion sets in. What if I don’t make it? An edge of panic gets intercepted by a calmer inner voice: Look behind you.

Out here on the water, it’s a fine line between feeling in control and losing it altogether.

Instead of falling, I am dancing with the wind.

Flip a coin. Life or death. Heads or tails. You never know.

If there’s a takeaway from working here, it’s an understand that, as bioorganisms, we are a walking time bomb programed for cellular self-destruction. Not if, when.

Lucid dreams often feel like this—as if you are observing yourself from a point over your shoulders-arm flexed, hands curving around the boom, breathing, in three dimensional silence.

There are two kinds of special events: planned and unplanned.

Inside, my spirit is sparkling like foam on the crest of a wave at high tide under a full moon.

The wise will admire you. The wishful will envy you. The weak will hate you. This is the reality for those who dare to be epic.

Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

the unconscious is so seductive because mortality is alien to it

The more sure you are, the more wrong you can be.

I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety, and they won't need to paste my face with make-up.

The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.

Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race

It’s simply doing what you’re supposed to do as well as you can when you’re supposed to do it.

Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are.

the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.