I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they had fun. They were real people. They formed the culture of American literature. Hemingway admired Tolstoy, Tolstoy admired Pushkin, and Mailer admired Hemingway. It all flows down. The greats are all connected. One day I'm gonna write a book myself. The first chapter will be about what a rough deal my momma got. She believed in you guys and your society.

I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.

There's nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don't make the same ones. We don't want to duplicate them.

For this fight my blood, my soul, everything was on the line.

Not to be egotistical, but I don't think there is a man on this planet who can beat me

If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead, then let it be.

I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.