“If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.”
Clive James“It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.”
Clive James“Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.”
Clive James“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.”
Clive James“She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.”
Clive James“Democracy is even more important for what it prevents than for what it provides.”
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“All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.”
Clive James“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
Clive James“Apparently Burgess shares the gutter press assumption that those who achieve fame should be made to suffer from it.”
Clive James, Cultural Cohesion: The Essential Essays