I don't think you can bury words. I think the more you try to dismiss them, the more power you give to them, the more circulation they have.

If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard.

I think being an athlete prepares you for more things than people give us credit for.

A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.

I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence.

I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.