A form of conservatism that makes clear we have problems in this country, it's not just about individualism, we have to help people who feel they're being failed by the system.

If a teacher misses a target, they change the teacher, If a minister misses a target, they change the target

When [Theresa May] says something she means it and she gets her way.

She [Theresa May] has done more to bring immigration down and abolish things like bogus colleges.

We have to consider who is going to be the best prime minister to take on a "one nation" agenda.

I’ve never been jealous before I met you, it burns, luv. Like silver through my veins. Some nights, watching you with other men on your jobs, I think it will drive me mad. (Bones)

When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.

When you write, you put your thoughts in the public space. You get both positive and negative feedback.

Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.

Even if you are 18, my advice to you is: plan for your future.

I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.

What we (U.S.) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone.

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.