More by Martin Amis
Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
Einstein's Monsters (1987)
Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
Novelists in Interview (1985)
And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look, and feel, like shit.
London Fields (1989)
Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man, teetering on the roadside; it makes you seek him out with eyes of love.
London Fields (1989)
"Einstein's Monsters," by the way, refers to nuclear weapons, but also to ourselves. We are Einstein's monsters, not fully human, not for now.
Einstein's Monsters (1987)
Nowadays every business in America says how warm it is and how much it cares — loan companies, supermarkets, hamburger chains.
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America (1986)
Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions (1993)
The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America (1986)
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