“Would I get married again? No, I want to be waiting outside the bathroom of my boarding house forever. Of course, I do. That's why I go to that wretched dance every week. I want to be waiting outside my own bathroom, while some bad-tempered fellow with hair growing out of his ears reads the newspaper on the toilet and I wish I was back here, talking to you.”
More from Nick Hornby
“The life I want, there's no shortcut.”
“I'd be perfectly happy with a tin of salmon.”
“Nobody does anything worth doing with a degree.”
“I'm trying to work out what makes good things good.”