Far from marking the end of nationalism, the IPL is the ultimate triumph of that principle: a global tournament in which the same nation always wins.

A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I think A journalist says: let me tell you a story.

No cricketer is so dependent on the turf on which the game is played as the spinner; it can make, break, enfang or defang him.

The IPL, involving the socialist principle of a salary cap and the protectionist mechanism of quotas, is not perhaps the best example of a market left flourishingly to its own devices and dynamics.

The assumption now is that the interests of the brand and of the game overlap to the degree that cricket need hardly be mentioned.

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

nobody’s ever been arrested for a murder

The silverware shines if the sun. (L'argenterie brille - Si le soleil.

...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it.

We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity

The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes sends Mirabelle into a shallow hypnotic dream.