The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
ALAN BRADLEYThe very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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 BRADLEYAlthough it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
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 BRADLEYMy grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
ALAN BRADLEYThe spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
ALAN BRADLEYIf you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
ALAN BRADLEYWhat intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
ALAN BRADLEYTo be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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 BRADLEYChicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
ALAN BRADLEYGrowing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
ALAN BRADLEYAnyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
ALAN BRADLEYTo be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
ALAN BRADLEYI always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
ALAN BRADLEYOne that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
ALAN BRADLEY