It's my mission to tell the Australians from abroad in my work that Australia is a wonderful place.
Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive. - Clive James
Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive.
- Clive James
Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff. - Clive James
Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.
Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer. - Clive James
Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.
All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light. - Clive James
All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.
Fiction is life with the dull bits left out. - Clive James
Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.
An education without a Bible education is no education. - Clive James
An education without a Bible education is no education.
Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits. - Clive James
Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short. - Clive James
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like a brown condom full of walnuts. - Clive James
Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like a brown condom full of walnuts.
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