“There's something about physical labour that helps to chase away any lingering internal demons.”

“ real life hardly ever unfolds the way wed like it to, not like in a story.”

“We need stories in order to understand ourselves, for good or bad, to be inspired or horrified, it's how we cope with being human and how we decide what type of person we will become.”

“Living on the water took away the boundaries created by land and custom and introversion. Without fences and driveways, the water provided a constant thread of connection and dependency.”

“… real life hardly ever unfolds the way we’d like it to, not like in a story.”

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”

“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”