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.

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.

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching.

the invisible storehouse in nothingness, called memory.

We learn to become more empathic when we slow down, become present, and are fully committed to understanding another person’s uniqueness.

Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.

You know what? You didn't do anything wrong. I did. It's this dumb thing I do. I look into things and see more than I'm supposed to.

Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?

We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.