joy Quotes

I recall waking to the realisation that I was the best table tennis player under 17 in north Manchester and parts of Bury. The satisfaction lasted for half an hour before I saw into the nothingness of things.

The queue and the fan are, of course, closely related in that fans will queue any length of time in any weather to see, touch, watch, hear, read, wear, or simply enjoy proximity to the object of their devotion.

There is a shop close to where I live, outside which, on certain nights of the month - I've no idea if the transit of the moon determines precisely when - fans of designer skateboards queue from early evening in order - well in order, I presume - to be among the first to jump on a skateboard when the shop opens in the morning.

It's always nice to be praised, and insofar as a prize is a form of praise, you're glad when you get it.

'Family Guy'. It's not only the funniest programme on television, it's the most wonderfully, indecorously literate.

If it's bathos you want - and I suspect we are all bathos junkies in the end - nothing gives it to you quite like watching sport. Unless it's playing sport.

The liveliest effusions of wit and humour are simply what the reader of a novel has a right to expect.

I've always felt that desire. To get a woman to throw back her head in laughter is a hot thing.

Ideally, I would like everyone in the world to read and love my novels. In fact, I can't believe that everyone in the world doesn't love them. What is there not to love?

I like a singalong. And I'm a bit of a sentimentalist for the past myself.