Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.
A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody book that’s ever been written.
Storytelling has a narcotic power.
Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.
What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason