Amis is a force unto himself There is, quite simply, no one else like him.

I felt, as I have often felt, that my failing the truth could have no bearing at all on the Truth itself, which could never conceivably be in any sense dependent on me or on anyone.

Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.

Just because you took longer than others, doesn’t mean you failed.

Sometimes, humans were more monstrous than anything else.

People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.

I think if you're able to do over the course of your career 20, 30, 50 very wonderful rich characters, you'd rather have that than an Oscar.

Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it

As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.

O my companion, Worldly comfort is an illusion, As soon you get it, it goes.