“Good food makes me want to hit a punching bag like, Dat's right motherfucker. You done did it there.”

“My hand stays out with the offered food long enough to make the moment awkward. "Don't you want it?" I ask."That depends on why you're giving it to me."I shrug. "Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good.”

“Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer's mash, and the sweepings of racing stables, packing the mixture in little bags and selling them in health food shops.”

“He had a punch like a bag full of cue balls.”

“Good form and technique is a means to an end - for example, your punches will be more powerful if done right - rather than the objective itself.”

“Its snowing like a motherfucker right now, and motherfuckers snow a lot.”