Surfing is one of the most joyful pursuits a human can take up. But there's no joy in a deadzone. If you've ever surfed in turds and medical waste you don't want to repeat the experience.

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.

When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.

I really and definitely think that France has the capability to come forward. The EU should maintain their own position, without influence.

The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.

We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.

The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.

It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition.

I would say I'm - in the show, I'm a cultural Catholic, which is what I was.

Do not fall asleep in your enemy's dream.

Maybe it's true what Thomas Moore said: “It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.

Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.