Clive James

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

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

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 is just common sense dancing.

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

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

The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.

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

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