Через много лет до Тони дошло, что писатель всегда обречён на неприкаянность. Почему-то неприкаянные часто становятся писателями.
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...
Любой аккорд, простейший строительный материал для любой глупейшей песенки, в то же время является прекрасной, таинственной и совершенной вещью. И когда полуграмотный, некультурный и эмоционально несд...
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.
If I do OK with women, it’s not because of the virtues I have, but because of the shadows I don’t have.
Zašto je to najveći greh od svih grehova? Ceo život govorite sebi kako ćete kada umrete otići na to predivno mesto. I jedino što možete da učinite da biste tamo stigli malo brže je nešto što vas spreč...
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...
You were going to take me bikini shopping? Not me, dear. Patsy. I’m not interested in looking at curvy young women in bikinis. I’m deeply in love with my wife and I’m only interested in money.
You spend Christmas at somebody's house, you worry about their operations, you give them hugs and kisses and flowers, you see them in their dressing gown...and then bang, that's it. Gone forever. And...
Will had never wanted to fall in love. When it had happened to friends, it had always struck him as a peculiarly unpleasant-seeming experience, what with all the loss of sleep and weight, and the unha...
Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I just enjoy myself? But if you have to ask the question, then you know you're lost: self-consciousnes...
When I went back into the kitchen, I wanted to sit on my mum's lap. I know that sounds stupid and babyish , but I couldn't help it. On my sixteenth birthday, I didn't want to be sixteen, or fifteen or...
When I look at my sins (and if I think they’re sins, then they are sins), I can see the appeal of born-again Christianity. I suspect that it’s not the Christianity that is so alluring; it’s the rebirt...
What came first—the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?
We wrote about whatever we wanted, and we ended up with eighteen million people watching us. That’s the thing about television comedy, isn’t it? It makes us all a part of something. That’s what I love...
We fought, Wilkie Collins and I. We fought bitterly and with all our might, to a standstill, over a period of about three weeks, on trains and aeroplanes and by hotel swimming pools. Sometimes – usual...
We are, a lot of the time, baffled by the news we see on the front pages of our newspapers, often because the stories are complex, and we missed the beginning of them anyway. (How far back do we have...
This is a song by Emmylou Harris called ‘Boulder to Birmingham,’ she announces. It’s on the album Pieces of the Sky, which Rob is selling this afternoon for the unbelievable price of five pounds and n...