In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence of history.

In fact, do monogamous men exist at all?

The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling to his belief.

Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can 'solve the climate crisis.' But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

The fact that Thomas Jefferson owned slaves doesn't devalue what he wrote.

There comes a point in every story where you have got a reservoir of knowledge, and you are then really just adding the substantial new facts to your understanding of it. That is the easiest situation, because you can call on that reservoir, but when you get a sudden story out of nowhere, like ebola, you don't have a reservoir of knowledge.

Each book, for me, has been an adventure, a period of time dedicated to study, to document certain facts, to traveling, and also to fantasize and to invent.

Researchers may like to think that, given all the facts, we make rational choices. Ask economists how that assumption works out for them. No, we are emotional creatures who use value-based reasoning in conjunction with our rationality.

Scoring in the Derby d'Italia is always important and a source of great satisfaction.

I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright.

It gives me a very keen satisfaction that, after listening to my blather all those years, former students are now seeing that I wrote a book, that I did have it in me.

I'm a real Swede! In fact, I'm a quarter Finnish.

What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

It so happens that after a certain stage, we have to give in to the wishes of the people rather than your own satisfaction. I look at it as my responsibility to satisfy the wishes of the people more than mine.

One of the goals of the Trump administration is to reclaim all of the supply chain and manufacturing capability that would otherwise exist if the playing field were level.