“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”
“Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.”
“No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.”
“Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.”
“Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.”
“[T]he best historians...take a thorough knowledge of the evidence of their subject and combine it with a sharp intellect, the warmest understanding of people and the highest imaginative powers.”