To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.
If a guy hasn't got any gamble in him- he isn't worth a crap.
I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.
You're never a failure until you fail to get up.
In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.
I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much.
She (my ex-wife) wanted me to stop being Evel Knievel. I am who I am. I'm not going to change. I'll settle down the day they put me in a six-foot pine box.
A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is "South Park" - the hugely popular American cartoon show - and the things that the "South Park" creators have created, like "The Book Of Mormon," the Broadway musical. If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in "The Book Of Mormon," right? It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
. . . you just turned down the woman who put a marshmallow duck in your hot chocolate. I hope you feel like a real asshole now.
We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.
Silence was the cure, if only temporarily, silence and geography. But of what was I being cured? I do not know, have never known. I only know the cure. Silence, and no connections except to landscape.