I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love I love I love I love but you do not.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.

Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and ingenuity, are routinely entwined; the sport that evokes the most extreme reactions - loathing, revulsion, righteous indigation; a fierce and often inexplicable loyalty.

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.