“Fiction and fact: only madmen and magistrates cannot discriminate between them.”

“As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary. ”

“There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them.”

“The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.”

“You don’t appreciate the fact that madmen are very lucky.”

“My title “The Fabrication of Facts,” has the virtue not only of indicating pretty clearly what I am going to discuss but also of irritating those fundamentalists who know very well that facts are found not madder, that facts constitute the one and only real world, and that knowledge consists of believing the facts. These articles of faith so firmly possess most of us, they so bind and blind us, that “fabrication of fact” has a paradoxical sound. “Fabrication” has become a synonym for “falsehood” or “fiction” as contrasted with “truth” or “fact.” Of course, we must distinguish falsehood and fiction from truth and fact; but we cannot, I am sure, do it on ground that fiction is fabricated and fact found. - 91”