“Often I’m convinced that I have no idea what they’re on about during the meetings. But without my realising it some part of my mind is taking it all in. I go back to my office, look at the notes and they still don’t mean much, if anything – and I have a massive panic! But then I concentrate on the agreement and all of a sudden I start tweaking things, playing with the clauses, moving words around until it all fits … you know, creating a new exception here, or a new proviso there, a few new definitions … and it always ends up alright. Then sometimes I get all this praise for having shown such a focused approach, but in truth I never know quite what happened!”
―
Tom Vaughan MacAulay,
Being Simon Haines
