If someone like my father chooses to criticise Israeli policies, it’s not because he is a self-hating Jew, but because he is not prepared to live in a state of self-denial. Clive Sinclair Read Quote
I’m completely lacking any sense of religious belief, but I am superstitious. Clive Sinclair Read Quote
I believe that there may well be a personal God out there – not a monotheistic God – that has got it in for me. Clive Sinclair Read Quote
I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever – I was a very quiet kid at school – just hated me. Clive Sinclair Read Quote
I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off. Clive Sinclair Read Quote
I went to UC Santa Cruz, overlooking the Bay of Monterey and Santa Cruz, in 1969. Back then, the city was part-hippie, part-surfer, but mostly retired chicken farmer. Clive Sinclair Read Quote
As I was writing, I realised I wasn’t sufficiently extrovert to gather enough interesting souls with tall tales around me. I was no Louis Theroux. But neither was I interested in exploring my inner life in public, in the manner of a Jonathan Raban. Clive Sinclair Read Quote
Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions. Clive Sinclair Read Quote
This was the wonder of advertising; the complete absence of cynicism. It may have many mansions, but it has no room for Doubting Thomases. Clive Sinclair Read Quote
