I was a real skateboarder, not a gifted skateboarder. I represented that skateboarding was fun to do by being terrible at it.

Skateboarding doesn't make you a skateboarder; not being able to stop skateboarding makes you a skateboarder.

Skateboarding has nothing to do with competition or sport. It has to do with trying to stay as immature as you can for the rest of your life. It's kind of a lame thing to say, but it really is.

I feel like I've influenced in the sense that if you want to do it, do it. If you don't want to do it, don't do it. But don't rely on what people are saying you can do or saying what you can't do.

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action

Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.

It's always been you

If seeds saw dirt as their enemy, they would lose out on the opportunity to grow.

Insanity is when you keep doing something that does not work

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.

I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.

The breeding of shepherd dogs is the breeding of working dogs; and this must always be the aim, or we shall cease to produce shepherd dogs.

I never got to see the '27 Yankees. Everyone says that was the greatest team ever. But I think it would've been a great series if we'd have had the chance to play them.

If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.