Graffiti Literati on Life, Art, Boxing and the Cosmos

All life is a tension between Eros and Death. The urge to procreate and the will to survive -- you can never get rid of those instincts. But you can steer them into civilized channels so that they're constructive rather than destructive. I always tell my boxers that the person with the greatest character wins -- the greatest warrior, the purest person, morally and spiritually speaking.         That's what this corner of cyberspace will be about. Ruminations on life, literature and a world where it's set up that everybody's gotta murder, on some level, to survive. Everything that's beautiful is sad because it's going to be gone soon. But here, in the most abstract binary dance the human mind could conceive, we'll celebrate the beautiful for awhile.

- Floyd Salas