Throughout the history of the sport, the heavyweight champion has been... a reason to talk about boxing at the water cooler.

If you have an advantage, you have to take advantage of it.

Probably not even a household name in his own house.

The course of every intellectual if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough ends in the obvious from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Stereotypes wouldn't be so bad if black people were nicer, in general.

Why get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It's like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey.

I started out as an impressionist and that’s all about observing, how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed.

I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.

The people who carried the burden, who marked in strange field in search of an answer, and ended their journeys an unwilling hero.

At crucial junctures, every individual makes decisions and ... every decision is individual.