I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.
Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.
The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.