Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad".

We have one of those conversations where every thing clicks, meshes, corresponds, locks, where even our pauses, even our punctuation marks, seem to be nodding in agreement.

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarily deflected from your chosen path.

He'd told her it was just a scratch and got cross when she hadn't offered morphine.

You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad.

Surely we all occasionally buy books because of a daydream we're having - a little fantasy about the people we might turn into one day, when our lives are different, quieter, more introspective, and when all the urgent reading, whatever that might be, has been done. We never arrive at that point, needless to say.