Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones.
Clive JamesShe [Marilyn Monroe] was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short.
Clive JamesEvery sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.
Clive JamesThe rattle of plastic keys reminds me of a squadron of butterflies failing to fight their way out of a paper bag.
Clive JamesThe great thing about living until you get a bit older if you are a writer, and especially a poet, is that you have more life to reflect on. And I think that if I am better now - and I think that I am probably better than I was - is because that I simply have more to think about, more to get under control, more to understand.
Clive James