Martin Amis

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.

Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.