The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.

I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.

The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.

Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life

I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.

At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.