Quotes By Clive James

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

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