Clive James

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire. ”

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world. ”

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short. ”

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all. ”

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out. ”

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ”

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. ”

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. ”