Bon Jovi is most definitely the key to how I am able to write so much in a day

I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game.

In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.

Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?

Put not your Knife to your mouth unless it be to eat an Egge.

Be temperate in your work, but don't carry the patience over into your leisure hours.

Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match.

Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.

When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.

I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent.

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it, all right.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others it's for others to use.

When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple.

Without mutual tolerance emerging as the foundation, terrible situations like those of Tibet and Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Rwanda, can never be effectively improved.

If you live in the city, it is necessary to get out of it on weekends. Then you will realize that most of the thoughts and desires you have are not yours. You will see what is you.

I realize that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

Refuse to deny what you know but consent to how little that will always be, and, when the moment comes, the sky will open and the liberating intrusion will descend upon you.

Your body will produce what your mind believes.