You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.

If I ever leave this place- I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.

When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.

It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.

Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it.

Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.

Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave and surfing across it and my brother cheering at me from the shore.