To ATTEMPT to WRITE seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, ACCURATE and PAINFULLY affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting SENTENCES on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.

Having SOON DISCOVERED to be great, I must appear so, and THEREFORE studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my TIME to FASTING and prayer.

I've GOT more IMPORTANT things to THINK about. I've got a YOGURT to FINISH by today, the expiry date is today.

I'm AFRAID I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other WOMEN are inhibited about for me. They FEEL that you've given away TRADE secrets.

It is important that students BRING a CERTAIN ragamuffin, BAREFOOT irreverence to their STUDIES; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

The book was at a REASONABLY HIGH position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I THOUGHT it WOULD be an interesting experiment to SEE if my presence here would push it up or down.

During my 21 YEARS of PLAYING cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or OFFERED a bribe.

My songs are my KIDS. Some of them stay with me, some OTHERS I have to SEND out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might EVEN sound naive, but that's just the way it is.

It's both REBELLION and CONFORMITY that ATTACK you with SUCCESS.