19 quotes found
“When I started writingI was a sick teenagedfuck inside who partlythought I was the newMarquis de Sade, a bodydoomed to communicatewith Satan who was us-ing my sickness as hishome away from home,and...”
“A witty saying proves nothing.”
“There are no facts only interpretations.”
“Get your facts first and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.”
“'For example' is not proof.”
“A half truth like half a brick is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.”
“You are all you will ever have for certain .”
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is.”
“To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.”
“What men want is not knowledge but certainty.”
“The burden of proof lies on the plaintiff.”
“You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.”
“I come from a State that raises corn and cotton and cock-leburs and Democrats and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.”
