I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.

My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.