Bujak spoke of Einstein as if he were God's literary critic, God being a poet. I, more stolidly, tend to suspect that God is a novelist - a garrulous and deeply unwholesome one too. (Martin Amis)

Bujak spoke of Einstein as if he were God's literary critic, God being a poet. I, more stolidly, tend to suspect that God is a novelist - a garrulous and deeply unwholesome one too.

Martin Amis

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