Malcolm Bradbury

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.