Surfing frees everything up. It's just the best soul fix. Life should be stress free, and that's what surfing is all about.

The aloha spirit is real simple. You give and you give and you give . . . and you give from here (the heart), until you have nothing else to give.

Always go as far as you can see, then let faith take you the rest of the way.

This is [her] soul group.’What do you mean?’It’s a group of souls with whom she resonates closely.

I think so muchmay be it never endswhen this night endsthere's another at handI sleep with oneand wake with onewith everything else onthis life goes on.

How do you sell emptiness, vulnerability, and nonsuccess?

When was the last time someone was so overjoyed to see you, so brimming with love and affection that they literally ran to greet you? A dog will do that for you--ten, twenty, thirty times a day.

[On Antony's death] Strange, there has never been... such a silence.

This is the bravo’s dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.

My job is just to make the films and then I don't have any strategy.

Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.

I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.