“ The deal with multiculturalism is that the only culture you're allowed to disapprove of is your own. Martin Amis
“ Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and… Martin Amis
“ Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black. We can't tell if it will survive… Martin Amis
“ I think: you deserve to be what you are if you could bare to get that way. You must have seen it coming. And now there's nothing for you here. No one will protect you, and people won't see any reason… Martin Amis
“ Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more. Martin Amis
“ I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they're not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and morality and to make nuanced judgments. And really to just… Martin Amis
“ The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of po… Martin Amis
“ Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. T… Martin Amis
“ He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed. Martin Amis
“ People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. 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 who you're dir… Martin Amis
“ I gestured at my litre of fizzy red wine. Want a drop of this? I asked him.No thanks. I try not to drink at lunchtime.So do I. But I never quite make it.I feel like shit all day if I drink at lunchtim… Martin Amis
“ Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything. Martin Amis
“ Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing anything. You're given comedy and miss all the jokes. Every hour yo… Martin Amis
“ Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences. Martin Amis
“ Since Henry Miller's Tropic books, of course, it has become difficult to talk sensibly about girls' c*nts. Martin Amis
“ One recalls John Updike’s argument: the only evidence for the existence of God is the collective human yearning that it should be so. Martin Amis
