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

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.

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.

When you're about to die, your whole life's supposed to flash before your eyes. When you fall in true love, on the other hand, what you see in the twinkling of an eye is your entire future.

Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed.

Just as physical wounds heal at different rates in different people, so do emotional wounds. Everyone has different needs and speeds.

You rarely hear anyone use the word pancreas in a not-horrible context.

I need [Beijing's] trust in order to develop universal suffrage. The more suspicions being expressed, the more difficulty we'll have in moving towards the final destination.

I am determined to seek self-sufficiency in energy as an urgent national priority. My goal is to make America independent of foreign energy sources by 1985.

What’s the deal with the hair?” Curran tore his gaze from the book and grimaced. “Grows every flare. Can’t help it." We stared at each other. “Waiting for the Fabio joke,” he said.

There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.

Success always takes help. Failure is done alone.

We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you'll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces our fathers broke, or our mothers, or our friends, strangers, or our loves.