The children of the nuclear age, I think, were weakened in their capacity to love. Hard to love, when you're bracing yourself… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Pregnant Widow' three or four years ago, I tried to reread my first novel, 'The Rachel Papers,' because… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they hardly ever get round to it. They just… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Yeah,' I said and started smoking another cigarette. Unless I inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“barrios; each barrio has two or three gangs, and all the gangs are theoretically” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“If we all downed tools and joined hands for ten minutes and stopped believing in money, then money would no longer exist. We never… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“I was informed by my viscera that now was the time to put my arm around her shoulders. I ignored them.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
In her final months Princess Diana was being shat upon by the tabloids -- basically for sleeping with an Arab. When she died, these… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
If you feel you have a strong constituency among the young, you can really die happy, because the great unanswered question, the only valid… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
