Iโm not the smartest guy in the world, but Iโm certainly not the dumbest. I mean, Iโve read books like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", and I think Iโve understood them. Theyโre about girls, right? Just kidding. But I have to say my all-time favorite book is Johnny Cashโs autobiography "Cash" by Johnny Cash.
Nick HornbyWe're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?
Nick HornbyWhere would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!)
Nick HornbyLove, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable.
Nick HornbyThe chief attraction of the opposite sex for all of us, old and young, men and women: we need someone to save us from the sympathetic smiles in the Sunday-night cinema queue, someone who can stop us from falling down into the pit where the permanently single live with their mums and dads.
Nick Hornby