As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

I coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville.

I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don’t entertain, nobody’s listening.

You know what's wrong with our waterfront? It's the love of a lousy buck. It's making the love of a buck, the cushy job, more important than the love of man. It's forgetting that every fellow down here's your brother in Christ.

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

Silence is the sure sign that youre on your way out in Hollywood.

You can't eat your friends and have them too