Whether you're in the water staring up at a looming set or standing in front of 15000 people at a demo, you have to manufacture some courage and a sense of optimism in order to get through the moment, the day, the rest of your life.

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.

Being afreaid proves you're alive and awake.

Whatever you believe, you need faith to get through the day.

Overfishing is an obvious threat to our capacity to feed ourselves.

People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.

I don't consciously watch and file lived moments for my work. I have a couple of writer friends who do that and it creeps me out, to be honest. I know people think I must do that too, but I don't. But I do have a long memory.