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

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 may be inevitable that mankind has to suffer so that it may gain experience to transcend and transform her collective consciousness.

Humor is the secret into the audience's other ranges of emotions.

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.

When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories.

Abstinence is approved of God.

I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

Human science is an uncertain guess.

The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'

To hope is to risk frustration. Make up your mind to risk frustration.

For heavens sake, if you haven’t gotten comfy with Agile techniques and thinking, get on it right now.