Martin Amis

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

— Martin Amis

More will mean worse.

— Martin Amis

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

— Martin Amis

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

— Martin Amis

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

— Martin Amis

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

— Martin Amis

If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.

— Martin Amis

It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford.

— Martin Amis

Laughter always forgives.

— Martin Amis

The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.

— Martin Amis

Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.

— Martin Amis

Our best destiny, as planetary cohabitants, is the development of what has been called “species consciousness”—something over and above nationalisms, blocs, religions, ethnicities.

— Martin Amis

When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.

— Martin Amis