No curves on him

There's an intriguing Coffee House post about Bernard Madoff. This quote from New York Magazine is striking:

Bernie—whose office is in the famously ovoid Lipstick Building—couldn’t bear curves. “He was paranoid about them,” says one employee. In one office, he drank out of square drinking glasses, stored his pencils in square holders, tossed his trash into square cans. He insisted that the blinds align with window frames—“We used a tape measure,” says the employee. He liked computer screens to stand straight up and down.

Best of all, though, is the comment left by 'Trafalgar':