From Martin Amis (born 1949), British novelist, essayist and short story writer, “Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin (1997)
Lecture given at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University:
What we eventually run up against are the forces of humourlessness, and let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don’t just not know what’s funny, they don’t know what’s serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn’t be trusted with anything.
