Martin Amis

They did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be.

You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal

America is proud of what it does to its writers, the way it breaks and bedevils them, rendering them deluded or drunken or dead by their own hands. To overpower its tender spirits makes America feel tough. Careers are generally short.

Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us going to get expanded.

It was the tiredness of time lived, with its days and days. It was the tiredness of gravity- gravity, which wants you down in the center of the earth.

He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged.

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.