Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. I don't love it anymore.

People become writers in the first place by those things that hurt you into art, as Yeats said it. Then they become separated from what started out affecting them. Journalism forces you to look at the world so you don't get cut off.

If it's a beautiful day, I love taking walks. The walks are always aimless.

For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

Vietnam should have taught us that mindless anti-Communism is not a cause worth killing or dying for in a world in which Communism is hardly a monolithic force.

My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; gangrene set in. They sawed it off. So he didn't get what a lot of Irish immigrants got, which was a job on the Waterfront - he didn't get that.