Edmund Waller

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.