While researching the project [The Fourth Phase] I stumbled across this amazing research by a scientist called Dr Gerard Pollack who had done studies on what he called a 'fourth phase' of water.

We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.

We'll never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it.

It’s not the destination but the adventure along the way.

Experiencing the world through Endless secondhand information isn't enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it.

Now you're gonna take beatings. It's written in our DNA, you know. You're gonna go down. You get up, it's that simple.

If we want authenticity we have to initiate it.

If we want authenticity, we have to initiate it. Self-discovery takes us to the wildest places on earth

What is snowboarding to me? I'd say it's when I feel passion. That is, if passion is a combination of utter joy, frustration and rage. It's my life.

You know, I wouldn't even call snowboarding a sport, you know for me it's just a way of life

When your location is a snowy mountain in the winter the obstacles are pretty extreme.

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

The dream is a definite possibility.

Sometimes arriving too quickly is detrimental. It is dangerous to arrive without our character mature or intact.

The children start school now in August. They say it has to do with air-conditioning, but I know sadism when I see it.

You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing, Strike

The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.

Everyone always wants to find the answer, to feel that things are resolved. But in dreams, maybe there isn't an answer so much.

I can't say any artist inspired me, because I'm inspired by the things that go on around me.

Shane, honey, in Morganville, friends are the only things that keep you alive.

In everything that moves through the universe, I see my own body, and in everything that governs the universe, my own soul. All men are my brethren, and all things my companions.