A round ball of a man with protruding lower lip and seal-colored eyes, he spun like a top from continent to continent, jabbing a pudgy forefinger at everything that stood in his way.
– Ted Morgan
He seemed embalmed in hatred.
– Ted Morgan
In America, the land of the permanent revolution, ulcers and cancer often become, for the men at the top, the contemporary equivalent of the guillotine.
– Ted Morgan
It is a story to satisfy the expectations of the average man, who wants awful things to happen to overprominent people.
– Ted Morgan
It is less artificial than his other comedies. The epigrams do not seem to have been added on like candied cherries on a cake.
– Ted Morgan
The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill.
– Ted Morgan
The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.
– Ted Morgan
The stammerer is ambivalent about communicating with others-he desperately wants to communicate, but is afraid of revealing himself.
– Ted Morgan
When I slept, armies of footnotes marched across my dreams in close-order drill.
– Ted Morgan
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.