Bill

“si vis pacem para bellum.”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“He spent two decades wandering the wilderness, overmedicated, set upon by the tax man, divorce lawyers, everything but a rain of toads. There were more fights and pills and liquor and car crashes and women and discharge of firearms—accidental and on purpose—than a mortal man could be expected to survive, but he played.”
― Rick Bragg, Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story

“for the first time in German politics, human stupidity has been completely mobilized.”
― Volker Ullrich, Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich

“Like a giant Ponzi scheme, profits depended on an unending source of associates entering at the bottom of the pyramid, funneling cash up the chain,”
― Cameron Stracher, Double Billing: A Young Lawyer's Tale of Greed, Sex, Lies, and the Pursuit of a Swivel Chair