Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat.

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many.

There is one major problem with anti-virus software: It needs updating. Users cannot be relied upon to have even the anti-virus software in the first place, let alone be able or willing to pay for the updates.

As a kid in New Zealand, you play cricket in summer and rugby in winter. I played cricket and hockey. Not rugby. I wasn't brawny enough for it. Or silly enough, perhaps.

During my years of professional cricket in England, I realised that although the Australians were talented players, tactically they were a bit naive when compared to those who played full-time on the English circuit. You might find this arrogant, but that was the reality then.

I believe in greater self-sufficiency. International sport is tough, no doubt, but there shouldn't be too many crutches. In most cases sports psychologists are crutches, and they tend to soften rather than harden the players.

I keep trying to bring a more professional approach to New Zealand cricket. It's an uphill battle. I stay in the game because I find it intriguing and interesting. I'm not interested in coaching international sides. I don't mind short-term coaching. I don't want to get involved in the politics of teams.

I met my wife in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years. That's a great old term, 'courting.' And we had to do it quietly, of course, because you would know the difficulties one might have with Indian parents. She was advised by her father that people in the West don't take marriage seriously.

I think all versions of limited-overs cricket have attracted more people to the game.

I would love to play cricket today, with all - I am not just talking of money - the opportunity you get, the practice facilities, the amount of time you are able to put into preparation.

Personally, I've never done things just for money.

You can get too close as a team. You need time away from each other. You change in the same dressing room, you play on the same cricket field, you stay in the same hotel, you travel in the same planes and buses. C'mon - this business of everyone holding hands and being pally is nonsense.

The Southern Ground warehouse is rocking and rolling in Atlanta, with a T-shirt shop and a leather shop; everything we're selling at our shows we're making or publishing ourselves.

I think that when moms just give themselves up, the kids know. They feel guilty; they resent their mother for making them feel guilty, and then they grow up and do the same thing. Whereas my mother showed me that it's okay to focus on yourself.

A thug only understands you when you speak his language

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end - I'd had enough of it. And that was right about the time that we got a call for 'The Exorcist' interview.

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo and if an echo sounded no matter how faintly I would send other words to tell to march to fight to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.

Greatness is to stay humble when the whole world calls you great

If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.

You have to be okay with wins and losses. You can't just be looking for the wins and, when the losses happen, you can't buy more and more because you're sure it's going to bounce. We call that revenge trading.

I was made fun of a lot in high school because of the way I sound and the way I was.

I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

There are a lot of Iraqi people we can never pay back for what we've done.

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.

Knowing trees I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass I can appreciate persistence.

Music has always been in my family, but it was mainly keyboards. I learned to play classical piano, but when I first heard the amazing bass guitar of James Jamerson, who played on all the big Motown hits of the '60s and '70s, I knew bass guitar was my instrument.

They seemed to be staring at the dark but their eyes were watching God

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

That death is not to be judged an evil which is the end of a good life; for death becomes evil only by the retribution which follows it.

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

When a liquid boils, the temperature has been raised to such a pitch that the evaporating molecules are sufficient in number and speed to lift off the air from the surface of the liquid and push it back en masse.

I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.