Martin Amis Quotes

We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it : the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur.

You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than human—super-human—and also being only too human. But there just aren’t many great figures around now, so the tragic mechanisms can’t work.

Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.

But we mustn’t go too far back…in anybody’s life… Because if we do…then nobody is to blame for anything, and nothing matters, and everything is allowed.

Someone watches over us when we write.Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare.God.