Kook means the clueless beginner who paddles his surf board out to the other surfers in the lineup and starts chattering away like it's a cocktail party, completely ignores all the finely-tuned protocols of surf that have developed over decades.

When I got out of college, I had to make a living, and I started writing for magazines, and it felt like the perfect job.

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

I don't want foreign policy developed just by one party and ride roughshod over the other party.

I like everything from Miu Miu. Dolce & Gabbana cocktail dresses are a party essential; they're so flattering.

Huntington Beach is like ground zero for surfers.