Quotes by Clive James
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.
Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.
Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.
To find a fault is easy to do better may be difficult.
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.
Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.
Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.
