Tony Parsons

Quotes by Tony Parsons

• ...all that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exactly and equally balanced by its opposite.

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• to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go

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• ...all that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exactly and equally balanced by its opposite.

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• to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go

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• A tattoo doesn't make you look like an individual.

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• The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.

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• My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.

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• It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up.

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• When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change.

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• I've been visiting Thailand for more than 20 years but didn't fall in love with it until I visited Phuket Town in Phuket. The northern part of Phuket is one of the most fascinating places I've ever been, and largely unspoilt and unknown.

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• Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

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