"Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right."
"She wasn't just beautiful. She was like the sun coming up: coming up giggling. She was giggling as if she had just remembered something funny."
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Source: Clive James (2012). “Always Unreliable: Memoirs”, p.111, Pan Macmillan
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