If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.

The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.

Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.

I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.

I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing is existential - some fights are better than others.