Martin Amis Mean Quotations

More will mean worse.

They're always looking forward to going places they're just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven't yet done. They say hello when they mean goodbye.

One of the many things I do not understand about Americans is this: what is it like to be a citizen of a superpower, to maintain democratically the means of planetary extinction. I wonder how this contributes to the dreamlife of America, a dreamlife that is so deep and troubled.

All the things we value in society don't mean much in fiction.

Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.