The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.

It seems to me that maybe pretty much always means no. So dont tell me, I might just let it go.

Every time I get a chance to be out in the ocean, it's like hitting a reset button for me where I just feel alive again, in perfect balance. Music can give me that, as well, but not as easily. The ocean is the way I know how to find it almost daily.

I can go for a week without a guitar, but it's not even funny if I don't get to surf for a month.

Looking at himself, but wishing he was someone else. Because the posters on the wall, they don't look like him at all.

The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life.

People are lonely, and only animals with fancy shoes.