The mysteries of the female sex! We men can never hope to fathom your depths, but only try not to drown in them.

I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.

The punishment – to the body, the brain, the spirit – a man must endure to become even a moderately good boxer is inconceivable to most of us whose idea of personal risk is largely ego-related or emotional.

Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted.

On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.

For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

There are boxers possessed of such remarkable intuition, such uncanny prescience, one would think they were somehow recalling their fights, not fighting them as we watch.