Kingsley Amis

He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.

He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.

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.

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.

I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so read more

I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.

No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare

No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare