444 Quotes by Martin Amis

Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.

The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.

He thought, Yeah. Yeah, non-smokers live seven years longer. Which seven will be subtracted by the god called Time? It won't be that convulsive, heart-bursting spell between twenty-eight and thirty-five. No. It'll be that really cool bit between eighty-six and ninety-three.

There are many accounts of prison floors strewn with genitals, breasts, tongues, eyes and ears. Arma virumque cano, and Hitler-Stalin tells us this, among other things: given total power over another, the human being will find that his thoughts turn to torture.

Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.

Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.