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“The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know.”
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“It feels great to win and I can't be more thankful to the Lord for walking me through every step. God was and is so faithful every time.”
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“I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up. Now that I'm an old, old veteran-age 29-I do things a lot differently. I don't go to the gentlemen's clubs anymore. I had to slow that down.”
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“The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life.”
Source : "Waiting for the barbarians" by Morris Berman, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2001. 
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“Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.”
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“I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.”
Source : Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris (1985). “The collected letters”, Scribner
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“... when I saw Jimi Hendrix I knew immediately that this guy was the real thing ... and when he played it was like a rough sketch of what he was going to become ... this guy was our generation, and he wasn't in a suit .. he played a Howlin' Wolf song 'Killing Floor', and then we (The Cream) had to carry on the set. It was pretty hard to follow ...”
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“Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans. The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
