It can't always be a honeymoon

I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks - oh, how much better a handsome guy like you would look, David, without all those dumb ink stains stitched into your skin.

Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow is a secret city, with its own history, folklore and mythology. But what has surprised me is the love the people who work there feel for the place. Everyone seems to think they are plugged into something majestic.

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.