It was the hardest decision of his coaching career so I accepted that I should be No 1 and that was it

Arsenal have a goalkeeper emergency at the moment. I'll gladly step in.

Goalkeeping is like extreme sports sometimes - you have to let yourself go

At the moment I'm just swallowing it all as part of the humiliation but I think - and this is aimed at my dear manager - one shouldn't humiliate players for too long

You don't feel sorry for yourself, you get on with life. (after not being picked starting goalie)

If I have a lot of adrenaline in my body, that is helpful because I feel less pain

I made two mistakes at the beginning of the season. But I saw Manuel Almunia making mistakes as well, so sometimes you don't know what the thoughts of the coach are.'

When I see Almunia's performances, I get angry and have to make a fist in my pocket

He does not have my class.

I'm a professional. I don't want people to read something about me in the tabloids going out with celebrities or whatever. It might be a bit boring but I have to give values to my children.

To be sitting on the bench behind somebody who only started to play when he was 30 is not funny.

If you count your blessings, you will know, they outnumber your troubles.

There might come a day when you will have to fly alone. Don't be afraid. Your wings will take you to ridiculously beautiful places that you never knew existed.

In the community of living tissues, the uncontrolled mob of misfits that is cancer behaves like a gang of perpetually wilding adolescents. They are the juvenile delinquents of cellular society.

I write what I write, say what I say, 'cause I feel what I feel, and if I did it different, it would make me a liar! So I'd rather be an honest person than a good liar.

When you wish to subjugate a people, you have to convince them of their own inherent weakness.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

I believe in love and marriage, but not necessarily with the same person

I like progress but I hate change.

He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers.

A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.