Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.

I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports I wasn't good at anything artsy ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

Since I have come to America I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come but while living in America I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

Before I do anything I think well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone He just as you Would toy and woo He would chirp and flatter me He would hang the wing awhile Till at length he saw me smile Lord! how sullen he would be!