Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers

What I'm saying so badly is we're bred now to believe we're in control and should be in control.

I eat green ants often enough. They are wonderful. The trick is to squash them before you eat them, otherwise they bite your tongue and it ruins the experience.

In Australia surfing was for the oiks. It was always rebellious. And sadly it was for a long time a bit unreflective and macho and anti-intellectual. Unlike other sports it was essentially a youth cult, like rock and roll. But like rock and roll its people grew up.

It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a 3rd grade essay on someone else's work.

The notion that love is abroad in the world has shaped my life.

Humour's the pay-off for all that existential horror.