“I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.”

“New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he”