Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.
Martin AmisPeople? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge and playback and thought experiment. At the campfire they put the usual fraction on exhibit, and listen to their own silent gibber about how they're feeling and how they're going down. We've been there. Death helps. Death gives us something to do. Because it's a fulltime job looking the other way.
Martin AmisThey did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be.
Martin AmisThe trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And itโs always the same beginning, and the same ending.
Martin Amis