“For ruining a fact, do not attack it, defend it badly.”
“Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more”
“Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.”
“Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?”
“Built into bad news is that sense of profound disbelief. The mind struggles to absorb the bare facts, defending itself against the larger implications.”
“The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.”