Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.
Clive JamesThe first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.
Clive JamesLike most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a compulsive ritual which had no greater savour than the fumes of burning money.
Clive James