I do not think my life would make a very interesting book, ' I say. 'I feel I can speak with a certain amount of authority here.

I believe his lies, so he believes mine.' She turns and looks at me straight on. 'That's how it goes at the end of love.

People don't want the truth, ' he says, waving a hand at the streets around us. 'They want better-quality lies. High definition lies on fifty-inch screens.

It used to be the smartest people didn't always want to be the richest people.

Capitalism needs war.

If you do it in the bookies, it's a bet. . . . If you pay some 23-year-old in an Armani suit two hundred grand to go to the window for you, it's a derivative.

Turn you dream machine on and create the world you wish to experience through your imagination.

I'm crazy about him and I'm crazy without him!

There are going to be good times and bad times, but lighten up.

Football is an art form in itself. All sports are.

I can write with a crying child on my lap. I have. Often.

Birth into this life was the death of the embryo life that preceded; and the death of this will be birth into some new mode of being.

As the eldest in the family, I'm used to making unpopular decisions.

If you can’t do anything about it, don’t worry about it.

In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.

That's football, Mike, Northern Ireland have had several chances and haven't scored but England have had no chances and scored twice.