Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.

Shankar Basu introduced me to a different type of training that eventually helped me increase my pace. That, in turn, went on to help me bowl at the death, too.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.

The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.