Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.

English, although the official language of Nigeria, was a formal language with which strangers and non-relatives addressed you. It had the potency of digging craters between you and your friends or relatives if one of you switched to using it.

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.