Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.

Some people attach snowboards to their feet, very few attach them to their souls.

I totally forget about snowboarding in the summertime.

I wasn't your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12.

I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.

I’m a big fan of doing what you are really bad at. A lot.

You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.

I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.

I think the way to become the best is to just have fun.

The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there.

You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

There are some bright spots, to be sure, but the internet is still in a Wild West phase, as was the case during the early age of the printing press as well.

My brothers are my backbone. My parents are my oxygen. I can't live without them.

I think Sarah Michelle Gellar has done some brilliant work as Buffy.

When you're that tall, people talk about it all the time.

And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself?

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don't want to do.

Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.

In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present.