Your purpose when driving is not to arrive at your destination safely or quickly. Your purpose when driving is...to impress your personality on the r… - Martin Amis

Nowadays every business in America says how warm it is and how much it cares — loan companies, supermarkets, hamburger chains.

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life

Have you noticed, now, the way people talk so loudly in snackbars and cinemas, how the shelved back gardens shudder with prodigies of talentlessness, drummers, penny-whistlers, vying transistors, the way you see and hear the curses and sign-language of high sexual drama at the bus-stops under ghosts of clouds, how life has come out of doors? And in the soaked pubs the old-timers wince and weather the canned rock. We talk louder to make ourselves heard. We will all be screamers soon.