My former identity was lying around, somewhere, fragmented and buried, like shards from an earlier civilization.

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.

It's so tempting to resist a little gift when you're expecting the otherwise.

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

There is actually a genetic signature associated with meditation.

I guess if you keep making the same mistake long enough, it becomes your style.

Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.

In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me.

There's enough music in the world. There are enough rock stars.

There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.

I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.