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Boxing has become America's tragic theater.   Sports
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the mo...  
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?  
If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and n...  
In love there are things - bodies and words.   Love
In love there are two things - bodies and words.  
It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that ...  
Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.  
Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the li...  
Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Phys...  
Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until six...  
The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complac...  
The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.  
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.  
To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to...  
We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.  
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.  
When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are ...  
When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thi...