Fact Quotes

Facts are stupid things.

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

I’ve learned, That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.

I don’t believe that prayers actually change God’s mind – if there is a God – but I liked praying for people in need. It was like moral weightlifting. I tend to be self-obsessed, and it was nice to get out of my brain once in a while.

Nobody warns you about the fact that you have to go to war if you want to know peace.

I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way – one solid scene doesn’t have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.

In fact, depending on how much you earn, you can afford to pay somebody to do almost anything you don’t like to do.

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.