It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.

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.

People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.

Hunting and gathering are in my blood. But I've lived long enough to witness a diminution in the seas, and to notice a fragility where once I saw - or assumed - an endless bounty.

Are there any more beautiful words in the English dictionary than 'see you tomorrow?

Don't wait for people to dress your bed for you, do it yourself and you'll be glad to sleep and feel relaxed.

In Congress, I am a strong supporter of the New Apollo Energy Act. This plan would help to establish our energy independence, create jobs, and provide cleaner, reliable, and more affordable energy.

I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.

I want to make meaningful music always - I think every artist does. We want our words and melodies to mean something to people, even if it is just one person.

I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.

I need to feel like I'm part of something. I need to feel part of the world when I go to sleep.

I'd like to do one of those jumps they do in the movies; in a car, over a bridge, in the air with a huge explosion. It would be a final moment of entertainment.

Life is short, but the years are long.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.