Ted Morgan Quotations

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.

The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.

More people are using the Internet and searching for information and things to buy, and they want to know where these places are.

It is less artificial than his other comedies. The epigrams do not seem to have been added on like candied cherries on a cake.

When I slept, armies of footnotes marched across my dreams in close-order drill.

The stammerer is ambivalent about communicating with others-he desperately wants to communicate, but is afraid of revealing himself.

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.

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.

The elective system ... offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapés of knowledge and never had their fill.