Quotes By Author: Martin Amis

“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.”

“My life looked good on paper – where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.”

“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.”

“And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.”

“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.”