I like to be a bowler because I can't bat properly. After 17 years of cricket I have got the opportunities and made the wickets fall.

There will never be another Sachin Tendulkar.

Cricketers like Jadeja come once in a lifetime, and I am sorry he didn’t play in my time. Could have added a few more cheap wickets to my tally.

Rahul is always been in the shadow of Sachin. If you take his record it's as good as Sachin's but you cannot compare both as they are different kind of players. Rahul is a complete cricketer.

The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.

Even the best computer in the world has no idea that it exists. You do. No one knows what creates that ineffable awareness that we're here.

Perhaps I'm dead. Perhaps this is all it will be. The living will carry on in their world – touching, walking. And I'll continue in this empty world, tapping soundlessly on the glass between us.

A picture, of Jock Semple kissed me,appeared in The New York Times the next day after Boston Marathon in 1973, and the caption was "The end of an era."

Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings.

If your husband wants to lick the beaters on the mixer, shut them off before you give them to him.