There's no doubt that he's the biggest sports star in the world now. (on David Beckham)

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.

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.

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.

The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.

You gotta believe you can accomplish anything, and those who believe that they can accomplish anything, most likely will.

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

Back to work. If I’m [writing] I’m not thinking about the crazy.

Competition is good and has served us well.

Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.

Don't listen to you customers. They don't know what they want anyway.

I'm from Sweden so I don't enjoy winter at all; there's nothing cute about it.

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.