"Qui nil potest sperare, desperate nihil."

"We believe this to be the work of thieves, and I'll tell you why. The whole pattern is very reminiscent of …"

"I think fiction rescues history from its confusions."

"You're a historian. Tell me if there are any bath-tubs in history. I think they've been frightfully neglected."

"Over this landscape, Göran Therborn’s Between Sex and Power rises up like some majestic volcano. Throwing u…"

"Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities for escape, again, are as many a…"

"The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone."