I've been a loyal person all my life and I'd like to finish my career here

I'm just looking forward to playing, and if anything else comes my way it's a bonus. I'm looking to have an injury-free season and doing things for Lancashire to get us where we belong.

I'd desperately love England to beat the Australians.

The standard has gone up, whether that's down to the split divisions or more professionalism. People are raising the bar and wanting to emulate the England team.

England have no McGrathish bowlers, there are hardly any McGrathish bowlers, except for [Glenn] McGrath

I wrote Seventh Heaven for my mother who I miss eve

A hundred thousand million Stars make one Galaxy; A hundred thousand million Galaxies make one Universe. The figures may not be very trustworthy, but I think they give a correct impression.

Endings are beginnings, and beginnings are ours to turn into something good.

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'

In war, discipline is superior to strength; but if that discipline is neglected there is no longer any difference between the soldier and the peasant.

Science is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than to write a science book for young people?

From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.

Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.

You're too important to just... die.