I will get my respect or I will die.

If you ask [my brother Frank Shamrock], I smoke crack, I do steroids and I cut myself (to get out of the Kimbo Slice fight). I mean you name it, I've done it -- just ask him.

I don't put much stock in remembering things. Being able to forget is a superior skill.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.

Remember that there's no one way of doing things. ... If you just get a hammer and hit it really hard, whatever it is, I guarantee you it'll open.

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

Oh, it's lovely to see you!' Franny said as the cab moved off. 'I've missed you.' The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all.

These aren't like logging roads to get those blades in there. They're greater than 40 feet in width, almost like a superhighway.

Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to me.

One must have a tough mind, and a soft heart.

As an artist you can use your own discomfort and neuroses and difficulties and at least transform them into something else. Without that you're just neurotic and uncomfortable.