Kauai is kind of my place where I go to get centered. Its always my place to come back and feel normal again.

Surfing makes me happy, so that's just what I'm going to keep doing.

I want to do whatever I possibly can to be as good as I can be.

Surfer girls rip and they are hot

I think people are just haters. When they see people doing well, some people, if there's something wrong, they'll pick at that.

There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe.

But he’s an untouchable, Shirin.’ ‘He’s my Untouchable Prince Charming, then. Only I am allowed to touch him.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives.

For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you.

My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.

Writing forces consciousness.

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

I don't really think kids care much these days - they just tell you to f*** off.

If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that ought to be acceptable in the United States.