By the early seventies I had become an Englishman - that is to say, I hated England just as much as half my compatriots seemed to do.

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

Record stores can't save your life. But they can give you a better one.

It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.

I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.

For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.

It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

The only things worth seeing are beyond what you can actually see.

Personal Responsibility leads to collective responsibility.

Success is the most important to many, to me it's just a bonus.

Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.

Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and '60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in to KISS and whatnot, so I guess that's where I got my first taste for music.

Most of the world around you doesn't read the Bible. So... God gives the world a living epistle- you.

I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.

miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in particular has.

I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.