Silence is the sure sign that youre on your way out in Hollywood.

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

You can't eat your friends and have them too

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true.

He didn't even attempt to smile and I knew then that I had lost him.

Welfare is monetary methadone.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world.

Liberty is the solution of all social and economic questions.

Savor the moments that are warm and special and giggly.

Sometimes when I travel from climate to climate, my skin can change very drastically because I go from hot to cold. I get dry like everybody else - from planes.

Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it.