"I walk around at 150-152 pounds to weigh 147 pounds. Other boxers weigh around 160-170 before coming down."

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Am I missing something because of my lack of education? Being an intellectual - I'm not. So I hire him as a corner man, like a boxer; he watches me and tells me what I do wrong before I go in for the next round. Barry thought he was going to write what became Executioner's Song, and I told him he wasn't going to. And Barry's closest friend was Joan Didion.

— Lawrence Schiller