Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth]

The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.

Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. Or it's a theme park ride; it will soon come to breakfast cereal mascots.

Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?

I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

You can’t buy that kind of empowerment. To just know that as far as you are aware, you have not got a price; that there is not an amount of money large enough to make you compromise even a tiny bit of principle that, as it turned out, would make no practical difference anyway. I’d advise everyone to do it, otherwise you’re going to end up mastered by money and that’s not a thing you want ruling your life.