Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.

- Martin Amis

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

- Martin Amis

Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline.

- Martin Amis

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

- Martin Amis

Your heart becomes gangrenous in your body when you go against your talent.

- Martin Amis

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

- Martin Amis

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

- Martin Amis

My theory is - we don’t really go that far into other people, even when we think we do. We hardly ever go in and bring them out. We just stand at the…

- Martin Amis

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

- Martin Amis