Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life
Martin Amis.
“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.”
“The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.”
“It is straightforwardand never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.”
“The deal with multiculturalism is that the only culture you're allowed to disapprove of is your own.”
“My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.”
“Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.”
“And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.”
“The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love yo...”
“What Joab did not and could not know was that it was ego, and the ego of a king is just like the ego of anyone else. It is a social infection, entering each person as a psychological virus that is ...”
“Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.”
“Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories, we too easily oppose one another.”
“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel and the novel, only between good books and bad books. A good book tak...”
“Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.”
“All stories are true. But some of them never happened.”
