Doncaster will hit Villa with fire and broomstick.

I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.

What a writer brings to any story is an attitude

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.

The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those who don't.

I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.

The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve.

Stress is when you're 29 years old, playing for Rochdale, with an expiring contract and a mortgage to pay.

Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create you many enemies.

Think'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing?I tell thee, 'tis not so fair as thouOr any man that breathes on earth.

That’s what I’m trying, sir… getting my life.

The wisest men follow their own direction.

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

The numbers of distinct human societies or nations, when our race is twice its present age, may be far greater than the total number of all the men who have ever lived up to the present time.

A horse to one who loves him is a cure for many ills.

Going without a thing enhances the desire to get it.

Everything you think you're supposed to feel even, or do. When it doesn't match up with what everything that the culture is telling you to do, you feel like a failure.

When Germany and England and America will long have lost their present identity or purpose, we shall still be strong in ours.

I think that Medvedev and Putin are in on it together. One is playing the good cop and the other the bad cop.