“She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midg...” — Clive James Quote

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

“Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.”

“Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.”

“Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.”

“I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.”

“I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.”