Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.
Kingsley AmisOnly a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
Kingsley AmisI sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
Kingsley Amis