What a debut for the young goalkeeper, as a striker.

A smoked salmon sandwich of a football match if ever there has been one.

Daei's all alone here, with four Chelsea defenders for company.

Tottenham ice their sublime cake with the ridiculous.

The crowd...a cacophony of colour

Alan Smith... very much a striker, by reputation... and by fact

It had to go in, but it didn't.

The referee was only five or seven yards away from that incident.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.

Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they?

I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched.

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it.

Leaders are never appreciated or needed until you don't have them.

Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret.