Always Unreliable Quotes

“Even in its latterday form as a behavioural sink, a den of thieves and a bedlam of managerial fatuity, the magna civitas is still a magna solitudo, and a great solitude is what I need, while I work on the long task of forgiving myself for having been born blessed, and for a consuming melancholy that I never earned.”
― Clive James, Always Unreliable