"He was permanently unsettled as if he were in an airport lounge waiting for a plane. In the old days, when he flew a lot, he’d never been able to to get absorbed in a book until the plane had taken off, so he’d spent the pre-boarding time flicking through magazines an browsing in gift shops, and that’s whattje last couple of decades had felt like: one long flick through a magazine."
Nick Hornby- Juliet Naked