Quote of the Day (Clive James, on U.S. vs. Foreign Talk Shows)

“In Britain and Australia, most of the talk shows go on the air once a week for a limited season. In America it is more like once a day forever. The host's huge salary is his compensation for never being free to spend it. The schedule is crushing, and the top-of-the-show monologue, if the host were to write it on his own, would need a full day’s work, with no time left over for all the other preparation he has to do.”— Clive James, Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts (2007)