It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are.

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.

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

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.

... such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing.

There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, will be taken from you. In time.

Not even the most devastating truth can be told; it must be evoked.