-in her acceptance speech for the National Book Award in 1970language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.