If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.
It's exciting to go from snowboarding to skateboarding because I get to start as the underdog again.
Some people attach snowboards to their feet, very few attach them to their souls.
What does it mean to be a snowboarder? It's about having fun, with your friends or by yourself. It's about pushing yourself to try new things and do the unexpected. Finally, and most importantly, it's about being creative.
You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.
I didn't set out to beat the world; I just set out to do my absolute best.
I’m a big fan of doing what you are really bad at. A lot.
The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.
I was arrested 1965. I had come back from the merchant marines, got into conversations about the war. I had never heard of Vietnam until I was in the merchant marines in constitution square in Athens, and I picked up the New York Herald or the International Herald Tribune and there was my first introduction of the word Vietnam.
My walk is consistently made fun of.
When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.