Just take your time - wave comes. Let the other guys go, catch another one.

Every day of the year where the water is 76, day and night, and the waves roll high, I take my sled, without runners, and coast down the face of the big waves that roll in at Waikiki.

Don't talk - keep it in your heart.

Out of water, I am nothing.

I am only happy when I am swimming like a fish.

Out of the water, I am nothing.

I have never coasted down a hill of frozen rain.

I have never seen snow and do not know what winter means.

As we open our hearts, what we notice is that information starts opening up for us in an unfolding process, as if life were being revealed layer by layer.

action speaks louder than word but if someone judged you by your picture that means they are STUPID not to understand art and missed the meaning of "for art sakes

When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

This shed does not contain me.

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can, I'm just going to hold my breath, because I know i'm going to hear all kinds of scar tissue popping.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

Above all never forget that a marriage is in one way very much like a newspaper. It has to be made fresh every damn day of every damn year.