A critical faculty is a terrible thing. When I was eleven there were no bad films, just films I didn't want to see, there was no bad food, just Brussels sprouts and cabbage, and there were no bad book...
A couple of times a year I make myself a tape to play in the car, a tape full of all the new songs I've loved over the previous few months, and every time I finish one I can't believe that there'll be...
1) Fate a meno di scrivermi che spendo troppi soldi per libri che in gran parte non leggerò mai. Questo lo so già. Perché comunque ho intenzione di leggerli…più o meno. Le mie intenzioni sono buone. I...
Not even sex, especially not sex, please God not sex, the filthiest and most terrifying invention of the early seventies.
You can find people. It's like those acrobatic displays.... Those ones when you stand on top of loads of people in a pyramid. It doesn't really matter who they are, as long as they're there and you do...
To father) Aren't you glad that you've never had to buy vegeterian cookery books as the first small step on the road to getting inside someone's knickers?(father) ...however vegeterian recepies you ha...
Не бе проблем, мислеше си Дънкан, че двамата с Ани никога не се бяха обичали. Тяхното беше брак по сметка и до този момент функционираше прекрасно - приятелите им бяха съпоставили старателно интересит...
Направих кафе - каза той. - В джезве.Джезвето бе важно, инак не би го споменал. Дънкан смяташе, че приготвянето на истинско кафе изисква твърде много шетня с всичкото там дозиране и чакане, и повтаряш...
Мисълта, че може да се наложи да преподава вечно, беше стряскала Ани неведнъж и тя дотолкова ненавиждаше предишната си работа, че дори и сега закъснението от десет-петнайсет минути, с което си позволя...
Если вы не слышали эту композицию и имеете намерение ее послушать, забудьте обо всех других делах на этот вечер, убедитесь, что вы в комнате не один (прослушивание песни в наушниках, скорее всего, гро...
«Ecco che senso ha stare insieme. Tu hai un certo potenziale. E io sono qui per farlo emergere.»
You see, what I really want, and what I'm getting with Stephen, is the opportunity to rebuild myself from scratch. David's picture of me is complete now, and I'm pretty sure neither of us likes it muc...
You run the risk of losing anyone who is worth spending timewith, unless you are so paranoid about loss that you choose someone unlosable, somebody who couldnot possibly appeal to anybody else at all.
Will restrained a desire to leap in at this point and tell her that an inability to hold down a relationship was indicative of an undervalued kind of moral courage, that only cool people screwed up.
When someone uses the phrase ‘the prick one’, and you know immediately that this is a synonym for the word ‘metaphorically’, you are entitled to wonder whether you know the speaker too well. You are e...
When I am no longer desperate, when I have got all this sorted out, I promise you here and now that I will never ever complain again about how the shop is doing, or about the soullessness of modern po...
The difference between these people and me is that they finished college and I didn't; as a consequence, they have smart jobs and I have a scruffy job, they are rich and I am poor, they are self confi...
See, records have helped me to fall in love, no question. I hear something new, with a chord change that melts my guts, and before I know it I’m looking for someone, and before I know it I’vefound her...
Nobody worries about kids listeningto thousands, literally thousands, of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery andloss. The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are t...
It had never occurred to Sophie that she would be forgiven so readily for her trespasses and she wasn’t sure that she liked it. She had refused to visit her dangerously ill father in hospital because...