[...] what I like about sex is that I can lose myself in it entirely. Sex, in fact, is the most absorbing activity I have discovered in adulthood. When I was a child I use to feel this way about all sort of things - Mecano, The jungle Book, Biggles, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, the ABC Minors... I could forget where I was, the time of the day, who I was with. Sex is the only thing I've found like that as a grown-up, give or take the old film: books are no longer like that once you are out of your teens, and I've certainly never found it in my work. All the horrible pre-sex self-consciousness drains out of me, and I forget were I am, the time of the day ... and yes, I forget who I'm with, for the time being. Sex is about the only grown-up thing I know how to do; it's weird, then, that it's the only thing which can make me feel like a ten-year-old.
Hornby, Nick. High fidelity. Pag. 100. Penguin Books, 2000.
