William C. Hall

“Like so many other pathological personalities in positions of power a million years ago, he might do almost anything on impulse, feeling nothing much. The logical explanations for his actions, invented at leisure, always came afterwards.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

“Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“There were two types of strong men: those like Uncle Monty and Abe Steinheim, remorseless about their making money, and those like my father, ruthlessly obedient to their idea of fair play.”
― Philip Roth, The Plot Against America