Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists..

Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning..

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations..

The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned..

The very best people are like that. They don't entangle you like flypaper..

Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat..

If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide..

I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel... I love that form….

It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest, and I had long ago bec….

I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instan….

What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation - all of it! - was held together by invisible ….

As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. N….

I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and….

Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend..

My 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 bas….

I 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….

I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early ….

Not 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, o….

I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, del….

Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!.

To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel..