Robbie Keane's not the second choice, he's my first choice. But Jermain Defoe is as well.

I'm the same as maybe six or seven people in every ten - I can't take f***ing criticism.

How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan?

The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the U.S. financial system have resulted in American economic failure.

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

There is a kind of mysticism to writing.

Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span.

Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.

The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue.

(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss

Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.

Expectations are the engines of our perceptions.