Martin Amis

England
Born on 25 Aug 1949
Writer

Quotes



Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.
Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.
It is straightforward�and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.
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.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays