“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone’s neurosis, and we’d have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.”

— William Styron
 

 
“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte
 

 
“The truth is more important than the facts.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright
 

 
“Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.”

— Alan Turing
 

 
“Political language– and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists– is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

— George Orwell