The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America Quotes

“America is proud of what it does to its writers, the way it breaks and bedevils them, rendering them deluded or drunken or dead by their own hands. To overpower its tender spirits makes America feel tough. Careers are generally short.”
― Martin Amis, The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America

“Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart. ”
― Martin Amis, The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America