Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.

Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.

Memory narrativises itself.

It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to create.

Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?

Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

In the olden days, a memoir was something written by Churchill and people like that, because they had a grand experience and considered it useful for future generations. And then it became what it became - a public purging in which other people have the chance to judge you and then forgive you, perhaps learning something from your sorry example.