I can 100 percent tell you that I have not gone under the surgeon's knife or had a facelift.

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

Sachin Tendulkar is in my time the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third.

Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't.

When I turned 36 I realised - the likelihood is that in four years time I'll be 40.

Never give up; just absolutely never give up.

To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.

Find a way to get back in to the game, find a way to build a partnership, find a way to catch a ball, find a way to stop it.

Being in love with somebody is a wonderful feeling.

I still eat pizzas, I still like pies, I still have spaghetti hoops for breakfast... but it's in moderation now.

The IPL is just pure, intense. You don't need all the other stuff. I don't believe in coaches in international cricket.

Bicycles are the most efficient vehicles on the planet, 50 times more efficient than cars, and twice as efficient as walking.

I do make sure that I've got people who are experts that are helping me make the best decisions possible.

I wouldn't cut you out of my life Clary, any more than I would cut off my right hand and give it to someone as a Valentine's Day gift." Gross," said Clary. "Must you?" Simon grinned. "I must.

Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

I'm glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they're lying.

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.

Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

The moon ... is a mad woman holding up her dress So that her white belly shines. Haughty, Impregnable, Ridiculous, Silent and white as a debauched queen.