One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
ALAN BRADLEYOne of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
ALAN BRADLEYI was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
ALAN BRADLEYCompared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
ALAN BRADLEYNot very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.
ALAN BRADLEYI am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.
ALAN BRADLEYI grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.
ALAN BRADLEYChildren have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.
ALAN BRADLEYI was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
ALAN BRADLEYGrowing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
ALAN BRADLEYI always woke up before the plane landed.
ALAN BRADLEYTo be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
ALAN BRADLEYI was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.
ALAN BRADLEYI fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
ALAN BRADLEYWhenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
ALAN BRADLEYThe very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
ALAN BRADLEYTo be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
ALAN BRADLEY