One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man.Why wait for a call when you have a command?

It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

If you like your soccer cerebral, and the triumph ultimately to be wrung out of staying power, Milan was the place to be. If you love the uncertainty of teams that cannot defend yet have the courage to attack, attack, attack, then Seville was heaven... The common denominator between the victories of Arsenal and Fenerbache? The strength of mind, the courage to dare in another team's domain, the inner belief that is as much a part of sporting success as the skill a fellow may be born with.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.