The whole point of marriage is to stop you getting anywhere near real life. You think it's a great struggle with the mystery of being. It's more like…

- Malcolm Bradbury

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

- Malcolm Bradbury

Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.

- Malcolm Bradbury

Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lec…

- Malcolm Bradbury

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything …

- Malcolm Bradbury

But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind…

- Malcolm Bradbury

With sociology one can do anything and call it work

- Malcolm Bradbury

On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.

- Malcolm Bradbury

Life is a crisis - so what!

- Malcolm Bradbury