"Cricket was not merely a game - a great and noble game. It was the embodiment of everything that was best in the British, it was something above politics, a bridge that crossed the divides separating the races."

"Look, I wouldn't trust Harriet Harman's political judgement."

"Though espionage is supposed to be thrilling, CIA memoirs are often boring. Usually written decades after the fact, always sanitized by government censors, the typical "autospyography" has the vague, …"

"When I began singing 'Conga' athletes from all over the world busted out of formation to dance with me, I thought: 'Wow, what a great choreography!.' I thought it was planned. But then the tower start…"

"He who walks through a great city to find subjects for weeping, may, God knows, find plenty at every corner to wring his heart; but let such a man walk on his course, and enjoy his grief alone — we ar…"