Experts say men think of sex every 10 seconds... What do they think of in the other nine? — Clive James Copy Share Image
First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art. — Clive James Copy Share Image
Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen. — Clive James Copy Share Image
His pear-shaped head, I could now see, was situated on top of a pear-shaped body, which his black gown caused to resemble… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff. — Clive James Copy Share Image
The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB — Clive James Copy Share Image
Murray sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants… — Clive James Copy Share Image
I was brought up on the proletarian left, and I remain there. The fair go for workers is fundamental, and I don't… — Clive James Copy Share Image
One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing… — Clive James Copy Share Image
In The Bob Hope Golf Classic (LWT) the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the… — Clive James Copy Share Image
The repeat run of Fawlty Towers drew bigger audiences than ever and deservedly so. Statistical surveys reveal that only the television critic… — Clive James Copy Share Image
I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history,… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a… — Clive James Copy Share Image
It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I… — Clive James Copy Share Image
The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about… — Clive James Copy Share Image
The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail. — Clive James Copy Share Image
A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early… — Clive James Copy Share Image
She wasn't just beautiful. She was like the sun coming up: coming up giggling. She was giggling as if she had just… — Clive James Copy Share Image
My wife spoke perfect Italian and she was very beautiful and very suave Italian men were crowding around her, talking all the time and… — Clive James Copy Share
The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London… — Clive James Copy Share
In London there was no home cooking worthy of the name. When you were in funds you ate out. But only the people whose… — Clive James Copy Share
Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits. — Clive James Copy Share
I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write… — Clive James Copy Share
Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it… — Clive James Copy Share
One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him. — Clive James Copy Share
Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones. — Clive James Copy Share
“Too many of my friends are dead, and others wrecked By various diseases of the intellect Or failing body. How am I still upright?… — clive james Copy Share
“Rilke used to say that no poet would mind going to gaol, since he would at least have time to explore the treasure house… — Clive James Copy Share
The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas. — Clive James Copy Share
