Everybody likes to see the loner hitched. It tells them everything is right with the world.

I was very far away. My real life had gone underground and could not be seen by anybody. The person at the surface that everybody saw was no longer me.

But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived.

All a person does in a moment of suffering is to suffer. There is not room for anything else.

I wanted impossible things. I wanted my life with her before it all turned bad. What I had been given had been taken away and now I was even less than before.

It felt like betrayal, finding joy even in little things when Willow was in danger.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion and if we were sure stifling it would be an evil still.

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

Some people like you, some people don't. In the end you just have to be yourself.

Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

You can say 'stop' or 'alto' or use any other word you think will work but I've found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone's head is pretty much the universal language.

It's not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old.

I should clarify that anyone that goes onstage and makes strangers laugh is insane. So I am insane.

I'm realising my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I'm crazy.