One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that way is madness.

I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency.

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.