You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.
And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

