“ Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'"Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him. Kingsley Amis
“ He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the Church he currently did not attend was Catholic. Kingsley Amis
“ John D. MacDonald is by any standards a better writer than Saul Bellow, only MacDonald writes thrillers and Bellow is a human-heart chap, so guess who wears the top-grade laurels? Kingsley Amis
“ Some mysterious revenge of nature has seen to it that no poem in praise of drink or tobacco (or snuff, if any) can succeed. Kingsley Amis
“ I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it. Kingsley Amis
“ To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say here and now that any unsolicited manuscripts or typescripts sent to me w… Kingsley Amis
“ Bowen looked nervously about for peasants. It would be unendurable if they all turned out to be full of instinctive wisdom and natural good manners and unself-conscious grace and a deep, articulate un… Kingsley Amis
“ I thought to myself how much more welcome a faculty the imagination would be if we could tell when it was at work and when not. Kingsley Amis
“ Dixon was alive again. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way; not for him the slow, gracious wandering from the halls of sleep, but a summary, forcible ejection. He lay sprawle… Kingsley Amis
“ It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you. Kingsley Amis
“ A man's sexual aim, he had often said to himself, is to convert a creature who is cool, dry, calm, articulate, independent, purposeful into a creature that is the opposite of these; to demonstrate to… Kingsley Amis
“ Jake did a quick run-through of women in his mind, not of the ones he had known or dealt with in the past few months of years so much as all of them: their concern with the surface of things, with obj… Kingsley Amis
“ Then, Patrick, you do feel it too? You do feel ... something? It would be so bleak if you felt nothing. That's what scares women, you know.''I do know, and you needn't be scared. I feel something all… Kingsley Amis
“ When the bishop farted we were amused to hear about it. Should the ploughboy find treasure we must be told. But when the ploughboy farts... er... keep it to yourself. Kingsley Amis
“ ... all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which really deserved a face, he had none to celebrate it with. As a kind of token, he made his Sex Life in… Kingsley Amis
“ Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another. Kingsley Amis
“ Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do. Kingsley Amis
