You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.

It's no good looking to writers for definitions of what constitutes proper writing, because you will drive yourself crazy, and you won't find anything that you can build into a coherent whole.

I have always been accused of taking the things I love - football, of course, but also books and records - much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me.

Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.

I burst into tears and I cry and cry until it feels as though it is not salt and water being squeezed from my eyes, but blood.

The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.

When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier.