“First and foremost, Tendulkar is an entertainer and that for me is as important factor as any fact or figure.”

Sachin is cricket’s God.

Too often boring players have been pushed forward as great by figures alone. For sheer entertainment, he will keep cricket alive.

The only time an Australian ever walks is when his car runs out of petrol.

I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.

Especially in recent years, the more and more we understand what we are doing, the more we have the science to tell us what we’re doing, the fact that we continue to do it without taking steps to address it strikes me as, among many other things, irreverent in an extreme.

Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.

The will of God is exactly what we would do if we knew all the facts.

If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there’s a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.

They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry

The really authentic thing about humor is that anyone can pretend to be serious. Anyone who’s ever had a job – in fact, we’re pretending to be serious now, more or less.

The successful memoirist [blogger] respects facts, uses them accurately, rigorously represses the human impulse to lie or embellish, but knows that truth is both different from facts and greater than facts, and not always their sum.