Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.

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

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

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

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

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, oddly enough, death was life.

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