Clive James Quotes

Apparently Burgess shares the gutter press assumption that those who achieve fame should be made to ...

If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do...

Democracy is even more important for what it prevents than for what it provides.

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

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

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

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

The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you...

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...