The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that hey this is interesting but maybe I could do something here too.

I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums I find in the flight of a good drive.

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.