In my own view, Hamas's frustration derives from a lack of legitimization by Israel and by much of the world. It is this frustration that leads them to such destructive desperation. That's why we need to grant them status as a legitimate enemy - before we talk about an agreement or, alternatively, about a frontal war.
I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.
A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
No one man is superior to the game.
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
