Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive.
Clive James
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
Clive James
Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
Clive James
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
Clive James
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.
Clive James
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.