One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

Crack is ruining the drug culture.

The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands on to be transformed, even for a day, into hairy, hard-fisted brutes who walk all over cops, extort drinks from terrified bartenders and roar out of town on big motorcycles after raping the banker's daughter.

I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively. ... For words are merely tools and if you use the right ones you can actually put even your life in order, if you don't lie to yourself and use the wrong words.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.