Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.

Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it.