Den musik man redan har räcker inte en hel livstid, inte om man lyssnar på musik varje dag och så fort man kommer åt.
But then, that was the trouble with relationships generally. They had their own temperature and there was no thermostat.
Несколько раз в году я составляю для себя кассету, чтобы ставить ее в машине, сборник песен, которые полюбились мне за последние несколько месяцев, и каждый раз, когда я его заканчиваю, я не верю, что...
Малкълм замълча. Ани знаеше, че терапевтите използват такава техника - ако мълчат достатъчно дълго, накрая обектът на терапията ще изкрещи: Спах с баща ми!, и всички ще се разотидат доволни.
Contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century.
There was the same need for obscurity, the same suspicion that if a piece of music had reached a large number of people, it had somehow been drained of its worth.
There was a lot of work to do, and arguments to have, and kids to take care of, and money to find from somewhere, and sleep to lose. I could do it, though. I could see that. I wouldn’t be sitting here...
There aren’t too many candlelit dinners and second honeymoons, I can tell you. We’re beyond all that. We’re good friends more than anything.
The moment had gone. You're probably thinking, How much concentration does a man need to throw himself off the top of a high building? Well, you'd be surprised. Before Maureen arrived I'd been in the...
The fuck? he said. The fuck? said Jess. The fuck what? It's an American abbreviation, said Martin. «The fuck?» means «What the fuck?» In America, they’re so busy that they don’t have time to say the...
The annoying thing about reading is that you can never get the job done. The other day I was in a bookstore flicking through a book called something like (and, without naming names, you should be awa...
Sophie was beginning to realize that there was nothing to be done about actors: they would always end up sleeping with each other. They had always done so, and they probably always would.
So the whole conversation is going right off course. It's like a supermarket trolley with a wonky wheel, because all the time I'm thinking, this should be easy to push along, and everything I say just...
She wanted to be given a funny script so that she could make it funnier.
She and Duncan had ended up together because they were the last two people to be picked for a sports team, and she felt she was better at sports than that.
Quando sei infelice, secondo me, tutto nel mondo - leggere, mangiare, dormire - ha chiuso dentro qualcosa, da qualche parte, che serve a renderti ancora più infelice
Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me a little pang or something - not unhappiness, exactly, but some kind of quiet, deep regret... I kee...
Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over...
Marcus was difficult simply because he frequently gave the impression that he was merely stopping off on this planet on his way to somewhere else, somewhere he might fit in better.
Marcus tenía razón, por supuesto, pero tener razón no servía de nada si el resto del mundo estaba equivocado