Daniel Handler Quotes

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.

To me, point of view is everything.

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it.

From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.

There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

You know, an opinion can be right or wrong.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

I want to suggest a feeling. It's ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Where facts are few, experts are many.

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.

Reviews are extremely subjective, but I have respect for them.

Two sides to a story exist when evidence exists on both sides of a position. Then, reasonable people may disagree about how to weigh that evidence and what conclusion to form from it. Everyone, of course, is entitled to their own opinion.

Everything is but what we think it.

The world is how we see the world. Some people see the world good, the other people see the world bad. Every person has an idea of the world with a subjective [viewpoint].

You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.