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.

People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.

I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried.

I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.

I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time.

Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.

I just have this thing inside me that wants to eat and conquer. Maybe it's egotistical, but I have it in me. I don't want to be a tycoon. I just want to conquer people and their souls.