I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.'
It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.