I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

In the long run, Ram Swarup will probably prove to have been the most influential Hindu thinker in the second half of the 20th century. He has, at any rate, been a crucial influence on most other Hindu Revivalist authors of the last two decades.

The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.

I'm very happy to win a second time, I found it to be a very easy race.

Well, for me the greatest of all marathons is of course the olympic marathon, but second place is Boston.

The first night, a rock, big as two fists.
The second, a rock big as three.
But nary a curse cursed Rudolph Reed.
(Though oaken as man could be.)
The third night, a silvery ring of glass.
Patience arched to endure,
But he looked, and lo! small Mabel's blood
Was staining her gaze so pure.

The Second Amendment! It says you have the right to bear arms, or the right to arm bears, whatever the hell you want to do!

Every 11 seconds a little girl is being mutilated somewhere in the world, it has nothing to do with religion, culture or tradition but against all rights of humanity its a crime its cruel its unacceptable.

I thought Bolt was amazing, I mean, beating the world record and slowing down at the end, how galling has that got the for the other athletes? I never managed to do anything in 9.69 seconds, it took me ten seconds to watch him do that.