In love there are two things - bodies and words.When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.Boxing has become America's tragic theater.Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.
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