War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't.
we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.
I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.
But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative.
I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.