Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

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If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no...

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no...

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it...

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it...

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would...

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would...

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

Homo sapiens are the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

Homo sapiens are the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there...

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there...

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to...

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to...

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a...

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a...