The people who say: 'You are what you eat' have always seemed addled to me. In my opinion, you are what you think, and if you don't think, you can eat all the meat in Kansas City and still be nothing but a vegetable.

There are no liberals behind steering wheels.

The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.

Skinny women don't enjoy being told they're skinny nowadays. They enjoy telling you how they got that way, as though starvation were an achievement.

Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.

Reality is the only obstacle to happiness.

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.