Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

I don't ask my wife to face Michael Holding, so there's no reason why I should be changing nappies.

Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

Aussies are big and empty, just like their country.

If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me

What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here

I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire.

For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.

I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test

The beauty of images lies behind things, the beauty of ideas in front of them.

I'm not super-athletic.

I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.

There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan.

The rules are simple: the first one to lose dies.

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

I also do my own processing, so it means a big commitment in lab time.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers.

People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.

An artist who opposes himself still has the best chances to reach some result.