Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it is science that is going to solve it. Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do. If anyone ever cures cancer, it will be a guy with a science degree. Or a woman with a science degree.

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.

After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game that the introduction of golf carts wouldn't fix in a hurry.

Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.

I come Des Moines. Somebody had to.

My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin.

America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.