I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.

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.

The wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

You can be happy even if your bones are broken, but no man is happy when his heart is heavy.

True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.

Well, unless you're Wayne Gretzky or Michael Jordan, you need the full support of your team.

I think it's amazing to have one writer write every episode of a series. It's very rare, I think. You get a voice that continues.

God fails not to sow blessings in the furrows.

I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this.

I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.

I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.