Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows.
Martin AmisNo-one is going to sit down and read Bleak House to the family any more, but they can all huddle up happily in front of Charles Bronson.
Martin AmisIt is straightforward โ 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.
Martin AmisYou can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal
Martin AmisIn Germany, they were very interested in talking about their past. I respect that, and I think they've done quite well. It's become a kind of obsession, as it bloody well should, when compared, for example, to France, which hasn't done anything. France has done no work about their part in transporting eighty thousand people to their deaths. They are still the guy in the leather jacket with the onion, who's a part of La Rรฉsistance. In fact, they collaborated, not resisted.
Martin Amis