Out here on the water, it’s a fine line between feeling in control and losing it altogether.

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.

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.

Swirling around my ears, the wind and I whooping at the sea, picking up speed, breathing it all in. An act of loving life.

I was born in the hands of a woman. And I want to die in the hands of one.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

The Church is not an enforcer of rules, but an outpost of grace

I never want to look in the mirror and say, 'What if? What if I had run harder? What if I had dived for that groundball?'

Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts.

If your child's gonna be a star it's going to happen and just let it happen.

I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

I have a fear of heights and I'm claustrophobic.

Carnal knowledge is as forgettable as the other kinds.