It’s a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn’t; it’s something that goes on inside us. - Brian Aldiss

It's a funny thing in my job: you remain perpetually lonely in a world where loneliness is the rarest commodity.

I'm no good, Teddy. Let's run away!" "You're a very good boy. Your Mummy loves you." Slowly, he shook his head. "If she loved me, then why can't I talk to her?" "You're being silly, David. Mummy's lonely. That's why she had you." "She's got Daddy. I've got nobody 'cept you, and I'm lonely.

Insane? To disobey a law of the universe was impossible, not insane.