When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.
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 AmisEnvy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.
Martin Amis