Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly.

... a writer concocts a different story for every reader.

Inhale courage, exhale fear.

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal—no one will see it. But when a button is missing—everyone sees that.

I don't think it's like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It's really another form of cancer, television.

Troubles never come singly.

Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

I like skateboarding. I'm here on this planet to skateboard; I feel this is what God wants me to do. I just live it. I get hurt all the time. I break bones. It's just all part of the process.

It's important to come to know that this is all there is. There isn't something to attain, there is only something to be.