You can't eat your friends and have them too

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.

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is in life, has not expired yet.

I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.