Martin Amis Quotes
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You shun your spirit,' he murmured, 'every time you agree to sell your days to the city, to measure out your life at the city's pace.
I've got to get this stuff out of my system. No, more than that, much more. I've got to get my system out of my system. That's what I've got to do.
You don't have problems, only a capacity for feeling anxious about them, which shifts and jostles but doesn't change.
Heat, money, sex and fever -this is it, this is New York, this is first class, this is the sharp end.
Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.
Ideology brings about a disastrous fusion: that of violence and righteousness - a savagery without stain.
One recalls John Updike's argument: the only evidence for the existence of God is the collective human yearning that it should be so.
One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.
It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford.
People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts.
And now, at dusk, outside my window, the trees shake their heads like disco dancers in the strobe lights of nightlife long ago.
Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions.
Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.
If you want to know the real meaning of pornography, it is the utter dissociation of love and sex, the banishment of love from the sexual arena.
It's good fun to create an unpredictable character. When he comes into the room, I don't know what he's going to do - I have to find my way.
It's possible to be flippant here, when Jihadists fly aircraft into buildings they shout God is Great, what do atheists shout when they do it?
Her body is probably naked by now but there is nothing as naked as human eyes: they haven't even got skin over them.
We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur.
Don't I ever do anything else but take soulful walks down the Bayswater Road, I thought, as I walked soulfully down the Baywater Road.
You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal
America still is the center of the world, and what happens in the American economy matters everywhere.
It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.
Einstein's Monsters, by the way, refers to nuclear weapons, but also to ourselves. We are Einstein's monsters, not fully human, not for now.
America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.
I don't think I've ever been particularly scared of death - but scared of dying, the process. It doesn't seem to be a good way of doing it.
It was the tiredness of time lived, with its days and days. It was the tiredness of gravity- gravity, which wants you down in the center of the earth.
No-one is going to sit down and read Bleak House to the family any more, but they can all huddle up happily in front of Charles Bronson.
Rust is the failure of the work of man. The project, the venture, the experiment: failed, given up on, and not cleaned up after.
Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.
Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.
The easier a thing is to write then the more the writer gets paid for writing it. (And vice versa: ask the poets at the bus stop.)
While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw - that of outright unreadability.
Richard's bookshelves weren't alphabetized. He never had time to alphabetize them. He was always too busy- looking for books he couldn't find.
In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.
If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are.
In the solitude of my cell I have come to the bitter realisation that I have sinned gravely against humanity.
Like writing, paintings seem to hint at a topsy-turvy world in which, so to speak, time's arrow moves the other way.
By 12.30, Giles had consumed five gin-rickies, four gin-and-tonics, three gin-and-its, two gin-and-bitters, and one gin.
But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while.
Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.
Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us going to get expanded.
The satirist isn't just looking at things ironically but militantly - he wants to change them, and intends to have an effect on the world.
I think a lot of people who read fiction are interested in subtlety. But they wouldn't like my stuff. It's a bit too violent for many tastes.
Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
It's without doubt my main subject. The way masculinity can go wrong. And I'm something of a gynocrat in a utopian kind of way.
The great writers can take us anywhere; but half the time they're taking us where we don't want to go.