“Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.”
“Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.”
“I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are reckoning without the facts. The proportions and relations of things are just as much facts as the things themselves.”
“I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers.”
“The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.”
“I love fiction that sound like fact… and fact that sounds like fiction.”