I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

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.

After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

I do not believe there is a long-term future for the privately rented sector in its present form.

Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

All activism is fake activism.

I don’t embrace excuses. I embrace solutions.

A man doesn't have to be alive to start the fires of revolution.

Most good media come out of somebody saying, 'This should exist; this is something I want to read.