"Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right."
"All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish."
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Source: Clive James (1985). “Flying Visits”
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