Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.

I was never given any hand-outs. I started at the bottom and was very good at finding people who knew more than me and learning from them.

I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern... I'm pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.

I'm not sure who has the right to say that you have better taste than somebody else, because essentially what you're doing is calling millions of people morons.

The number one way that we can address these long-term challenges of poverty, of education, is to invest in early childhood education.

We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.

I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that this is a voice I want to listen to for a good long while. It has much to do with imagery and language, a particular perspective, the assured knowledge of the particular universe the writer has created.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.