A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that.
There's something so relentless and foul about Hitler and his people, and the way things progressed from year to year. It just got to me in the strangest way.

