“There are not many mediums whose Dantes and Homers one can ring up and talk to. With games, one can.”

“After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?”

“One play can determine the course of a game. One play can change your momentum forever.”

“My favourite pub game is, of course, snooker. Any game whose rules basically amount to finding a table covered in mess and slowly and methodically putting it all away out of sight is one with which I can empathise emphatically.”

“To give one can of beer to a thousand people is not nearly as much fun as to give 1,000 cans of beer to one guy. You give a thousand people a can of beer and each of them will drink it, smack his lips and go back to watching the game. You give 1,000 cans to one guy, and there is always the outside possibility that 50,000 people will talk about it.”

“One man's anxiety can fill a medium size dorm. Everything is a battlefield when your dreams are ants.”