You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.
I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.
I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.