Clive James's Quotes

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

I came up with a story and I wrote it.

I'm not a great writer.

I really like clever men who challenge you.

I think women love to read love stories.

I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and getting back to writing.

I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.

If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.

Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.