Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.
Clive JamesI think the great trick of doing my sort of thing is to learn to use your downtime, and of course in the media and especially in television, there's a heck of a lot of time of waiting around. And I think the trick is to use that.
Clive JamesI've only got a fraction of the energy I once had, but I think I probably use it better.
Clive JamesTelevision is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.
Clive JamesEvery sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.
Clive JamesI was a big pothead for a short period. That was what ticked me off that I shouldn't go near hard drugs, actually, because I would consume the stuff as if it was going out of style and it rapidly occurred to me that if I ever tried a hard drug, the same thing would happen, so I never did.
Clive James