“ A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories - I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings in Japan. Peter Heller
“ Surfing is a life path. You have to really commit... You have to let go and have faith that it's gonna work out when you take off. Peter Heller
“ Nobody, not even artists, understood art. What speed has to do with it. How much work it takes, year after year, building the skills, the trust in the process, more work probably than any Olympic athl… Peter Heller
“ Still, some nights I grieved. I grieved as much at what I knew must be the fleeting nature of my present happiness as any loss, any past. We lived on some edge, if we ever lived on a rolling plain. Wh… Peter Heller
“ Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything. Peter Heller
“ Missing what most of the time? The babbling faceless agora, the fame, the parties, the pop of flash bulbs? The lovers, the gaiety, the champagne? The solitude carved out of celebrity, poring over char… Peter Heller
“ When her mouth found mine I disassembled. Not exploded like a bomb or anything, but came apart. A few pieces at a time. They floated away, went into a kind of orbit. A splintering galaxy. An extravaga… Peter Heller
“ Did you ever read the Bible? I mean sit down and read it like it was a book? Check out Lamentations. That's where we're at, pretty much. Pretty much lamenting. Pretty much pouring our hearts out like… Peter Heller
“ She collapsed. I stepped forward and caught her. I thought of two trees nearly unrooted and leaning against each other. Peter Heller
“ We love surfers for the same reasons we have always admired doctors and pilots and firemen and shamans, for the same reasons we admire excellent soldiers: because despite themselves they have bowed to… Peter Heller
“ When we are most scared is the time to summon our clearest concentration and move forward, not back. Peter Heller
“ There might not be a measure of happiness left in a life, but there could be beauty and grace and endless love. Peter Heller
“ He's a cocky SOB. He knew the Nick Adams Stories. Probably a frustrated English major who graduated from college qualified to drive a cab. Peter Heller
“ Happiness was not a word that seemed to apply anymore, when she had lost so many close to her. There was a contentment that felt deeper, that acknowledged and accepted the quieter offerings of small j… Peter Heller
“ The reason people are so moved by art and why artists tend to take it all so seriously is that if they are real and true they come to the painting with everything they know and feel and live, and all… Peter Heller
“ Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree, to paint a crazy picture and wipe out on your bike, to get hurt. The spirit of risk gradua… Peter Heller
