Well, I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song.
Nick HornbyTag: life music bruce-springsteen
Maybe nobody went to see the Rolling Stones here in 1964,' said Ros. 'The dead shark was just too much fun.
Nick HornbyTag: humor rolling-stones shark
But I want to see Clara, Charlie's friend, who's right up my street. I want to see her because I don't know where my street is; I don't even know which part of town it's in, which city, which country, so maybe she'll enable me to get my bearings.
Nick HornbyTag: humor relationships
It's easier to have parents if you've got a girlfriend.
Nick HornbyWhat 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? People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands-- literally thousands-- of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.
Nick HornbyBut something was going to give. He was having a shit time at school and a shit time at home, and as home and school was all there was to it, just about, that meant he was having a shit time all the time, apart from when he was asleep.
Nick HornbyI guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at.
Nick HornbyThese things are going to eat away at me... I rewrite the script in my head until it's 100-proof poison, and none of it helps at all.
Nick HornbyThere was an awful lot to be said for familiarity, if you thought about it. It was an extremely underrated virtue, ignorable until the very moment that you were in danger of losing whatever or whoever it was that was familiar.
Nick HornbyWhat went wrong? Nothing and everything.
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