I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them. Postscript to the Outsider (1967)
I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest. Postscript to the Outsider (1967)