The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon ones self to destiny. – Napoleon Bonaparte
In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake. – Napoleon Bonaparte
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination? – Iain Sinclair