Failure is a bruise. Not a tattoo.

I'm going to take this God-given gift of being funny, and I'm going to spread it out like peanut butter on everything I do.

I don't think I'm ready for New York.

This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.

Don't take things too seriously.

Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.

You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.

I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.