Kingsley Amis

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pâté than any other.

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pâté than any other.

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven read more

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used read more

A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night and then as its mausoleum.

No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.

No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.