Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?