“Consider roadblocks in your life as sharks in sea and than imagine what you will do if you are swimming in sea. Will you stop swimming on seeing sharks or double , quadruple your efforts to reach the shore ?”

“Life is good but sometimes you have to swim through frigid shark-infested waters with weights chained to your waist to get there.”

“You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'.”

“Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.”

“You don't really learn how to swim until you're thrown to the sharks. (Lauren)”

“I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.”