The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.

I tried retiring a couple of times and it just didn't really stick so, but at some point enough things conspire together and it does stick.

A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.

It is not that I don't recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don't fear the consequences.

Sometimes it's all about the win, sometimes it's about the skiing.

I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.

Eventually I'd like to have a family. I'd like to not be limping around when I'm 50 years old.

Sometimes I'm disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.

I'm still having fun and as long as skiing is enjoyable, I'm going to continue to do it.

Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.

It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.

One day, while life is being incredible and interesting, I’m going to die.

If you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.

Evil to him who evil thinks.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.

My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.

It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly.

The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works.

Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories.