Martin Amis Quotes

I had two thoughts about it. One was I could do that, and the next one was I'll never get to do that.

When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd even bothered.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Would I change anything? I don't know, that's a double edge sword for me.

Dear Willem: I’ve been trying to forget about you and our day in Paris for nine months now, but as you can see, it’s not going all that well. I guess more than anything, I want to know, did you just leave? If you did, it’s okay. I mean it’s not, but if I can know the truth, I can get over it. And if you didn’t leave, I don’t know what to say. Except I’m sorry that I did. I don’t know what your response will be at getting this letter, like a ghost from your past. But no matter what happened, I hope you’re okay.

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?

It's not like you make a decision and everything inside you is 100 percent happy.

My style says, 'Look at me, don't look at me.'

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

Everyone couldn't be happier and more terrified.

We fear the thing we want the most.

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity.

I have fervently been on both sides of that question at different times.

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

I feel like I was born in the wrong time.

I have back-and-forth feelings about everything a lot - it's not limited to my albums.

The thing to do when you're feeling ambivalent is to wait.

Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

We hope for the future, then we reach for the past.

The malcontent is neither well, full nor fasting; and though he abounds with complaints, yet nothing dislikes him but the present; for what he condemns while it was, once passed, he magnifies and strives to recall it out of the jaw of time. What he hath he seeth not, his eyes are so taken up with what he wants; and what he sees he careth not for, because be cares so much for that which is not.

It hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time.

It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.

I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy.

People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.