I'm pretty superstitious, I want to do everything right, get my routine right, and I wait for waves. I kinda try to sense the ocean coming together for me.

I remember thinking, "Far out, I can't believe this," when I started riding waves. Then I was starting to imagine where it could take me.

I still get the feeling I got when I started, that's why I'm still doing it after all these years, I still get that full adrenalin rush before I compete.

There are moments when things just break apart and not really for very valid reasons, either. But they just change your life and make you go in different directions.

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training (I think you can apply this to soccer as well)

You can't please everyone, so proudly exclude people.

The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.

There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.

I think comedy should be left up to the professionals, that way everyone's safety is protected.

As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.

Once you get yourselves into things that are working on a deeper level, you just have to keep going. When you reach that deeper level, you can't go back.

When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.