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 … - Martin Amis

It kept astonishing him — how weak the prohibitions always turned to be, and how ready everyone was to claim the new ground, every inch of it. An automatic annexation. What was called, in children, self-extension, as they stockpiled each dawning power and freedom, without gratitude, without thought. And now: where were the hinderers, the wet blankets, where were the miseries, where were the police?

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

Once, as he inhaled with his customary vehemence, I had a thought that made my armpits come alive.