How could there be a bad song called ‘Iron Man’, or ‘War Pigs’, or – my cup ranneth over – ‘Rat Salad’?
His way of coping with the days was to think of activities as units of time, each unit consisting of about thirty minutes. Whole hours, he found, were more intimidating, and most things one could do i...
He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale.
He was distraught, of course: he was just the kind of idiot who could only understand what things meant by doing them first.
He accused her of being bourgeois, whatever that was—it seemed to involve engagement rings and babies and all sorts of things she wasn’t interested in. He got so heated about them that for a moment sh...
For the first time, but certainly not the last, I began to believe that Arsenal's moods and fortunes somehow reflected my own
Do I want to be like him? Not really, I don't think. But I find myself worrying away at that stuff about pop music again, whether I like it because I'm unhappy, or whether I'm unhappy because I like.
But enough already of what grammarians will recognize as the third conditional: if + pluperfect + would.
Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go 15 rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then...
Being gay was a bit like the Olympics: It disappeared in ancient times, and then they brought it back in the twentieth century.
Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey.
We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts.
Четирийсет и една минути по-късно, докато ровеше из джобовете си за нещо, което можеше да използва вместо кърпичка, към него се приближи възрастна жена и го докосна по рамото.- Искате ли да си поговор...
По-късно у дома, пияна, тя се поддаде на някаква предкоитална тъга. Хрумна ѝ, че повечето от тъгите ѝ бяха предкоитални. И как да бъде иначе, след като по-голямата част от живота беше предкоитална? Но...
Вот в чем заключается реальная ложь шок-арта: такое искусство настаивает на своей демократичности, но эта демократичность только для тех, кто может ее себе позволить. И многие из нас, став старше, вне...
You had to do, it seemed, was ask for an inferior version of the life you’d had before and London would give it to you.
Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostalgic and hopeful all at the same time.
He was disappointed that he’d never quite added up to as much as the results of his own calculations. The trouble was that he’d got his sums all wrong, but she didn’t want to be the one to tell him th...
Back in gear, she closed the door on him. She leaned against it, felt the heat drain from her cheek into the cold wood. And then the dog was there with her in the narrow hallway. She smelled the meat...
You'd think that even a bad doctor on a bad day would feel better than a good drug dealer on a good day, but I suspect that this might not be true. I suspect that drug dealers have days when everythin...