Mint ahogy az az átlagnál szerencsésebb embereket sújtó depresszió esetében lenni szokott, én is szégyelltem a magamét, mivel nem láttam rá semmilyen meggyőző okot; egyszerűen csak úgy éreztem, mintha...
Like most depressions that plague people who have been more fortunate than most, I was ashamed of mine because there appeared to me no convincing cause for it; I just felt as though I had come off the...
It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself
It is important that we are occasionally, perhaps even frequently, depressed by books, challenged by films, shocked by paintings, maybe even disturbed by music. But do they have to do all these things...
Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique thimbles. There's a whole world in here, a nicer, di...
In the old days, when he flew a lot, he'd never been able to get absorbed in a book until the plane had taken off, so he'd spent the pre-boarding time flicking through magazines and browsing in gift s...
In a few short weeks, mock-marital status had ceased to be something to aspire to, and had become a cause for scorn. At seventeen, we were becoming as embittered and as unromantic as our parents.
I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.
I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.
I'd saw there were millions like me, but there aren't, really: lots of blokes have impeccable music taste but don't read, lots of blokes read but are really fat, lots of blokes are sympathetic to femi...
I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.
I wanted to hurt her, on this day of all days, just because it's the first time since she left that I've been able to.
I want to be a well-rounded human being with none of these knotty lumps of rage and guilt and self-disgust.
I had wanted to kill myself, not because I hated living, but because I loved it.And the truth of the matter is, I think that a lot of people who think about killing themselves feel the same way. They...
I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I know that already. I certainly intend to read all of them, more or less. My intenti...
I didn't say anything. But I could have pointed out that most life-changing says happen without your expecting them. I have spent what seems like half my life expecting the worst. And it never happens...
I couldn't have written because I--and I'm not alone, by any means--do not have Carey's breadth of reading, nor his calm, wry logic, which enables him to demolish the arguments of just about everyone...
I can't believe I told you all those things and we've ended up talking about how great I am.''But we're not. You've confused the two thnigs again. You're not great. You're a shallow, feckless, self-in...
I can't believe I told you all those things and we've ended up talking about how great I am.''But we're not. You've confused the two things again. You're not great. You're a shallow, feckless, self-in...
I burst into tears and I cry and cry until it feels as though it is not salt and water being squeezed from my eyes, but blood.