My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.

My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.

It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.