Tendulkar's genius is of an order that the average player cannot comprehend. Dravid's greatness is not just comprehensible, it is reassuring

In western societies many people become sick in their thirties, develop serious medical conditions in their forties and are disabled in their fifties.

Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.

Britain is obsessed with political correctness.

American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.

The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later.

loved the show as a child and felt I could not do it justice. [on turning down the role of the new Doctor Who

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.