Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say that I've been lucky in that I'm amused by what I do - sufficiently amused.
Clive JamesThe inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.
Clive JamesShe [Marilyn Monroe] was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short.
Clive JamesThe rattle of plastic keys reminds me of a squadron of butterflies failing to fight their way out of a paper bag.
Clive James