Funny + sad is what I'm pitching for, every time.

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.

Leave no path untaken.

Alcohol is not only a homely drink because also it drinks the whole family.

There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

We have somehow deluded ourselves into thinking that wealth is wisdom

It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.

Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions.

When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice.