I really don't want to be boring, and so many books are so boring!

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.

There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings

Do not wait to know you are drying before you start living.

A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le soupçon. Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual and poet, which nobody had suspected.

In his life, Donald Trump's had a great track record of failure, bankruptcies, running from Vietnam, everything like that.

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

Yesterdays depth is feeling very shallow, I wanna go deeper, deeper still.

I really don't care too much what the different later Christian traditions say. My aim is to be faithful to Scripture.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.