A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all – Clive James who celebrates his 77th birthday today.
He also said:
Anyone afraid of what he thinks television is doing to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
And:
Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.
And:
Stop worrying… nobody gets out of this world alive.
And:
The entrée wasn’t tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn’t have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place.
And:
Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants to hear what they have to say.