Tynan and James: On The Thrills of Theater

Kenneth Tynan: I still get a thrill every time the curtain goes up.

Clive James: I get a thrill every time it goes down.

(conversation at an Observer reception thrown at the Garrick Club by David Astor, the editor, for his journalists and critics, in late 1973, recounted in the preface to James' volume of television criticism, Visions at Midnight.)