Aidan Hall

“man produces evil as a bee produces honey”
― William Golding, The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces

“Sometimes, looking at the map of Great Britain, we are struck by the improbability of the place. That strangely fashioned land with its curious prongs and protuberances, like a slender-waisted old woman soaring on piggyback over the continent of Europe, seems suddenly to acquire the air of an improvisation.”
― Robert Payne, The Canal Builders: The Story of Canal Engineers Through The Ages

“You are interested in a person, not in life, and people die or leave us... But if you are interested in life it never lets you down. I am interested in the blueness of the cheese.”
― Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana

“If you are to punish a man retributively, you must injure him. If you are to reform him, you must improve him. And men are not improved by injuries.”
― George Bernard Shaw