I had to nurture those doubts as if they were tiny, sickly kittens, until eventually they became sturdy, healthy grievances, with their own cat doors, which allowed them to wander in and out of our conversation at will.
Nick HornbyAll I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You wonโt remember it, and youโll learn nothing from it, and youโll be less likely to choose a book over Big Brother next time you have a choice.
Nick HornbyBut what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in something over which we have no control; it is any wonder then, that we are reduced to creating ingenious but bizarre liturgies designed to give us the illusion that we are powerful after all, just as every other primitive community has done when faced with a deep and apparently impenetrable mystery?
Nick Hornby