Surfers are the canaries down the mine. Those of us who surf spend more time than anyone soaking in whatever the sea has become. We're suspended in consequences, you might say.

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.

She had penetrated his dream, but not in the way he penetrated hers.

There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own

Marcus and Ellie exchanged a worried look and examined the bag again. Sure enough, the gold was gone.

You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.

If military action in Iraq is launched without a new U.N. resolution, Canada will not participate.

Stick to your values in all circumstances.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Talking. According to Marc, I could talk the color off a crayon.

He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.

Being gone for so long and coming back into the game, I'm the type of person to reinvent myself pretty often and I can adapt to pretty much whatever genre is popping at the moment.