"Then I lost it. Kinda lost it all, you know. Faith, dignity, about fifteen pounds."

"There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had le…"

"Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD — the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B stan…"

"Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of a…"

"I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving …"

"By the early seventies I had become an Englishman — that is to say, I hated England just as much as half my compatrio…"

"As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me, …"

"Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This …"

"I’ve been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and, frankly, I think my guts have shit for brains."

"Single mothers — bright, attractive, available women, thousands of them all over London — they were the best inventio…"