I never let my schooling get in the way of my education.
— Mark Twain
Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‘Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.’
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.
Mark Twain