I'm not a policy expert - I am only arguing that there is more to an education than an economic ticket.

My longest love affair: with a book.

Books gave us a way to shape ourselves - to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who we wanted to be. They were part of our self-fashioning, no less than our clothes.

The best education for a writer, I think, is to read a lot - college can be a good place to do that.

A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a book.

My master's degree was in journalism, but everything important I ever learned about being a journalist I learned on the job.

I think it's a terrible mistake to only think in terms of a degree "buying" you something.

Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity.

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascendThe brightest heaven of invention!

Don't let anyone tell your story. Pick up a pen and write your own.

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.

I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.

Money may not buy love, but fighting about it will bankrupt your relationship.

We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.

The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.

You do not need to do anything first to be enlightened.

Beating a legend is a very good feeling, but internally I was processing the realization that I could compete with anyone.