Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.

Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

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Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for...

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for...

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...

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...

When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying...

When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying...

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in...

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in...

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...

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics...

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics...

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

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,...

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...

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying...

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying...

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.

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

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

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

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

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

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.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.