“ The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish. Clive James
“ Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. Clive James
“ She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short. Clive James
“ If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do. Clive James
“ When I first read The Rebel, this splendid line came leaping from the page like a dolphin from a wave. I memorized it instantly, and from then on Camus was my man. I wanted to write like that, in a pr… Clive James
“ No cries, no convulsions, nothing more than a face fixed in thought. The gods no longer existed, Christ didn’t exist yet, and there was, from Cicero to Marcus Aurelius, a unique moment in which man wa… Clive James
“ Nationalism is the culture of the uncultivated, and they are legion. —MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, CONTRO VIENTO Y MAREA, P. 439 Clive James
“ He has always held to the principle (which was also favoured by Stefan Zweig) that great artists are disqualified from being objective critics, because they are always thinking of how they would have… Clive James
“ In Latin America, the United States behaved in the very way that Harold Pinter thinks it has always behaved everywhere.) Clive James
“ Apparently Burgess shares the gutter press assumption that those who achieve fame should be made to suffer from it. Clive James
