I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad".

Reading begets reading.

I'd thought I'd live with my wife, but I couldn't find one.

Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to Rangers, and saw the same thing: that the natural state of a football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.