Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.
in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.
Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the hard work of selecting and shaping a readable story.