Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows.
Martin AmisThere's a lot of anti-intellectualism in Britain. And the writer's views on this or that are really of less importance, as they see it, than that of the man in the street.
Martin AmisIn America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.
Martin Amis