"Stories are the way we make sense of the past and imagine the future."
I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don’t talk politics.
"The most important thing in empirical work is to be clear about the question you are trying to answer."
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.