Quotes by Martin Amis

“Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn”

“Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.”

“Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.”

“Money doesnt mind if we say its evil, it goes from strength to strength. Its a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.”

“Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.”

“Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.”

“I hire tea by the tea bag.”

“More will mean worse.”

“I am a novelist,”

“You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star”

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.

And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.

The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.

It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Belief is otiose reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.

Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes Im too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

Impartially, shrewdly, I considered suicide, though not in my worst moments. The bottle of pills. The note: No hard feelings, everyone, but Ive thought about it and its just not on, is it? Its nearly on, but not quite. No? Anyway, all the best, C.