Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack of any birth or residential qualifications; the absurd publicity given to every feature of it by the press; the monstrous partisanships of the crowds.

We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.

Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.

What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.