There will be no heroics, and I will go gentle into that good night.

WSJ: A Doctor on How Physicians Face the End of Life

Sometimes the gentle Allen would be inside there, too, indicating, with his eyes, Look, go away, please go away, I am trying so hard not to call you KANT!

NEWYORKER: Tenth of December

It will be interesting to see if the rowdy elements in the notorious West Stand heed his words - there is nothing wrong with some gentle and humorous "Aussie baiting" which, after all, is what we get whenever we go to Australia.

BBC: Jonathan Agnew column