Going with intuition a lot of times is very lonely. You're going on hunches - a little voice in here says, "Go this way." And your mind is saying, "You're crazy."

Certainly you don't want to make something that nobody sees. It's not really about success, it's about sharing something.

What I lack in technique, I think I make up more for in intuition. I think intuition is underrated and so important in the work that one does in one's life.

Jay Adams may not have been the world's best skater, but he was the man, the real deal, the original, the first. He is the archetype of our shared heritage.

Watching young Afghan skaters in the film 'Skateistan' made me realize why I've spent my entire life as a skateboarder.

If you find yourself wondering if you can go on, remember how much you’ve accomplished. Then raise your head high and be proud. YOU GOT THIS!

...life is extremely resilient but not infinitely so.

I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.

I make funny videos of me playing video games, and I share those moments.

I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.

I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series.

No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.

Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and Wall Street a split second later.

Be positive and the challenge will be easier.