My friend Simon managed only sixteen of the seventeen League games - he smashed his head on a bookshelf in London a few hours before the Grimsby game on the 28th of Decemebr; his girlfriend had to tak...
Most days, for the last dozen or so years, I attributed to Charlie, or at least to our breakup, most things that have gone wrong for me. Like: I wouldn't have packed in college; I wouldn't have gone t...
Linda seemed to recognize loneliness. Possibly she could see it sitting opposite her, sipping lager and trying not to lose its temper. It was an illness, loneliness--it made you weak, gullible, feeble...
I’ll have got him out of my system. I hope not. Really? What would there be left of you, if you did?
It's often the way that people who take their work seriously laugh at stupid jokes; it's as if they are under-humored and, as a consequence, suffer from premature laugh-ejaculation.
It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it.
It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favourite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.
It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything that makes you feel) at the center of your being, then you can’t afford to sort out your love life, star...
It seems to make a difference to some girls. If you say something that isn't sexist to the right sort ofgirl, she likes you more. Say one of your mates is going on about how all girls are stupid, and...
Is the phrase Deliciously politically incorrect used with the same gay abandon in the U.S.? You come across it all the time here, and it usually means, quite simply, that a book or a movie or a TV pro...
Io, voi, non vi conosco. L'unica cosa che so di voi è che state leggendo questa pagina. Non so se siete felici o no; non so se siete giovani o no. Ma... cioè; spero che siete giovani e tristi. Se siet...
Inilah hidup, Marcus. Kau harus berjuang untuk apa yang kau percayai, dan kemudian menetap padanya. Itu sulit, tapi itu bukannya tidak ada. Dan setidaknya, itu mudah untuk dimengerti.
If she came into my shop, I might really get to like her, and then I’d be waiting for her to come in all the time, and then when she did come in I’d be nervous and stupid, and probably end up asking h...
If he'd known how long he was going to spend in the airport lounge of his own life, he'd have made different travel arrangements..
I've had countless conversations with or about people who are sleeping in separate bedrooms, as if sleeping in the same bed is all there is to staying married, but however bad things get, sharing a be...
I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.
I'd never really had arguments like this before, arguments I couldn't understand properly, arguments where both sides were right and wrong all at the same time.
I watched a lot of drunk players, too, I learned from the autobiographies published after they had retired.
I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn't have made me any happier. It was like scratching when you have chicken pox. You think it's going t...
I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.