All language is an aspiration to music.

The truth is, every sport has been turned into a huge, nihilistic business.

We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.

Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?’ She said, ‘Well, Dad, they’re round and they’re messy. But that’s what makes them fun. Once we get older we’re not supposed to be messy anymore. But for one moment when you’re eating a Valomilk, it’s okay to be messy again.

Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.

I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of tenderness.

Football offers us a sanitized spectacle of combat that has a clear resolution, which we need more and more today given our incoherent overseas "wars."