Ed Stapleton

“He was a bad son, a bad husband and a bad king, but a gallant and splendid soldier.”
― John Man, Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire

“Danny the whole idea of proving that people weren’t rational felt a bit like proving that people didn’t have fur. Obviously people were not rational, in any meaningful sense of that term.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge . . . says Darwin in The Descent of Man, his study of the evolution of humans from our hairier ancestors.”
― Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes

“My hair is beginning to go. I’ll soon be glabrous.”
― Graham Greene, The Collected Novels Volume Five: A Burnt-Out Case, The Captain and the Enemy, The Comedians, and The Man Within