It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss.

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

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.

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.

Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket.

Lots of times I was out through forcing the game.

It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.

It is often argued that left-handed batsmen have an advantage compared with the right-handers. I do not agree.

For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.

It’s called the Pyxis, ” said Raven. “Don’t let the fancy name intimidate you. It just means ‘box’ in one of those Old Earth languages, Roman or Spanish or Klingon…

Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

Since I got a divorce, I have been dating younger guys. But it's just because they're the ones that ask me out.

I was a Hollywood musical fan as a kid, and I know how rare it is for someone who originates the Broadway role to get to then do it on screen.

If you don't like what you see, stop looking.

You can behave as badly as you like in America. Nobody notices.

The key to happiness is not to make yourself into a different person; it is to let yourself be even more of who you really are.

"Striking looking." That's a euphemism if I ever heard one.