It's dark already and I'm out here again, talking, telling the story to the quiet night.

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.

What makes you think what happened to you on Earth wasn't an adventure?

I, too, shall seek honor. But I shall seek it where I know it will be found.

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing

Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

What have we heard from Republican voters? They want somebody that's new, they want somebody that's fresh. They don't want an establishment.

In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

The only characters I ever don't like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don't write characters that leave no impression on me.

Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.

A pound of Alaskan king crab legs and buffalo shrimp = happy Travie.