“Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale.”
“Narrative history fell out of fashion for many years in the 1970s and 1980s, as historians everywhere focused on analytical approaches derived mainly from the social sciences. But a variety of recent, large-scale narrative histories have shown that it can be done without sacrificing analytical rigour or explanatory power.”
“Germany's crime is the greatest crime the world has ever known, because it is not on the scale of History: it is on the scale of Evolution.”
“One should do what one is best at on as large a scale as possible.”
“Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.”