I was in my thirties before I learnt that I too would prefer not to see what I could no longer have

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'm going to make love to you, Lanie. I'm not your first, but I will be the last.

I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive.

I want to be the best parent I can be. I want to be the best husband I can be

Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.

When we turn our gaze to the inside, it becomes difficult to locate this familiar sense of self. To overcome that fear we need to feel special in some way.

... of the two kinds of order, the conscious and the unconscious order, only one is real. It's the order in the deep hidden places.

X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.