Barbara began to imagine the pretty girls working in Derry and Toms as beautiful tropical fish in a tank, swimming up and down, up and down, in serene disappointment, with nowhere to go and nothing to...
Annyira szeretnék bocsánatot kérni attól a kiskölyöktől: „Sajnálom, cserbenhagytalak. Én vagyok az az ember, akinek igazából gondoskodnia kellett volna rólad, de én elrontottam: rossz döntéseket hozta...
And what are we saying, anyway? That only old money is allowed to buy success? Isn’t that a little like telling Noel and Liam Gallagher that they aren’t allowed to make anything of themselves because...
A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for prospective partners, a two-or three-pag...
A couple of months ago, I became depressed by the realization that I'd forgotten pretty much everything I've ever read. I have, however, bounced back: I am now cheered by the realization that if I've...
In the end I value literacy more highly than health; if our two countries were full of fat readers, rather than millions of Victoria Beckhams, then we would all be better off.
Even Tucker's way of not living could be described as living, if you had a crush on him.)
…I've had a bad week.What's happened?Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.
Через много лет до Тони дошло, что писатель всегда обречён на неприкаянность. Почему-то неприкаянные часто становятся писателями.
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...
That night taught me one of life’s most useful lessons, one of the only pieces of advice I have to offer to younger generations: YOU’RE ALLOWED TO WALK OUT!
Opinion. Love meant being brave, otherwise you had already lost your own argument: the man who couldn’t tell a woman he loved her was, by definition, not worthy of her.
Names are really fascist and don’t allow us to express ourselves as human beings, and turn us into one thing.
La musica sentimentale ha un grande potere: ti riporta indietro nel momento stesso in cui ti porta avanti, così che provi, contemporaneamente, nostalgia e speranza.
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’re my easy life option. The moment you stop being that, you’re no option at all.
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 hated Christmas, for the obvious reason: people knocked on his door, singing the song he hated more than any song in the world and expected him to give them money.
Why should we be denied basic human rights just because we’ve messed up our relationships?
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...