I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done

I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it

What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.

I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things