Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“I've been told that I don't like women. I do like women. I think chicks are cool. I've been told that men… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Style isn't something added on; it's intrinsic to the perceptions and the way you see life. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Mary wanted to get out of here and on to another plane of life; but these words weren't going to help her… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Every day, the dispensing of existence.... Its face is fierce and distant and ancient. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“This had seemed a safe choice, since to be against the Beatles (late-middle period) is to be against life.” — 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
