I irritate the wife because of my private dancing.

I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am.

Football is all I know.

You do have demons throughout the week; every coach does.

People ask me about my interests outside football, but I haven't really got any.

My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.

It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used but they'll remember how you made them feel.

I love music, from shanty sea-songs to Calvin Harris.

I don't regret anything.

I don't believe in an 'all-about-me' culture. It's about the group.

If you ask me why I've succeeded it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.

Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!

When you know, you know and it flows in your mind like waves. Coming forward as it pulls with the tide. It brings anxiety, terror, and it’s beyond anything plausible.

Only if we transvalue the plain-vanilla standards of our life, we may bring back things to light and sense the lies behind perceptions. ("Behind the frosted glass")

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit.

How do you fight the stagnation of monogamy and the monotony of time together?

However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind.

Any organisation develops people; it either forms them or deforms them.

Little chickie la la, isn’t dumb enough to fall for that, guys. (Tabitha)

Sometimes I think that my best writing comes from exposing my fears and vulnerabilities and hoping that nobody notices it's about me.