Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.

And like an unfaithful mate, once a car has let you down you never sort of trust it again.

Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one.

Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a story because otherwise, it's stuck in this book and it's boring and it's academic and I'm not against intelligence and I'm not against education, I don't want to be misunderstood, but we have tell the stories to our young people a little bit early and history gives us a lot of things.

School should be eleven months of the year.

I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.

We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.