It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.

I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.

Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist. Dravid's defence tactics, his strokes, his cuts, his grace are truly amazing. I'd like to meet the chap sometime and take my hat off to him.

I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.

It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.

A victory? What have we won? We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea.

It was around 1985 before I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination.