Facts always are sensational.

She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.

... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.

A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

But she's a nut, and nuts win.

And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.

Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already created, and if your fabrication doesn't correspond, then even if you feel noble and insist on there being something better than what people call reality, that better something needn't try to exceed what, in its actuality, since we know it so little, may be very surprising. If a happy state of things, surprising; if miserable or tragic, no worse than what we invent.