Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.