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.
Nick HornbyI love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.
Nick HornbyBarry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey.
Nick HornbyDefinitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad".
Nick HornbyI may not know the weight of those things, but I could feel the weight of that one, so I kept it to myself. You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you. I suppose it's why you feel so far away from everyone, in the end; anything you can think of to tell them just ends up making them feel terrible.
Nick Hornby