“Cancer seems a high price to pay for an innocuous-looking habit. You get into smoking and you are robbed of the last 25 years of your life. Some cocky souls will say, 'Ah yes, but they are the worst 25… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
“Then they lay there in silence for a while, listening to the rain, watching it come straight down, feeling it cool their sweating faces.… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
“Rouz je bila na mojoj strani onako kako niko nikada nije bio na mojoj strani. Rouz je bila dobrovoljac. Bilo joj je stalo do… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
The thing I care about is my weight - I'm as fanatical about it as a member of Girls Aloud. I weigh myself every… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
“And it felt like every time I turned around, somebody was either dying or walking out.” — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldn't kick a ball, laughing in the gathering twilight, making… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
“I'm not saying it's what I would have wanted. But don't you see? We fuck up our lives again and again and it's always… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
“If you are always craving, always wanting, never satisfied, never happy with what you've got, you end up even more lost and lonely than… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky,… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
