Frank Deford Quotes

Psychoanalysis has a degree of unreliability about it. You will never know whether you've found the truth. You may find a subjective truth, but you don't know.

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

I'm a Michael Jordan fan just like everyone else. I just don't think he's the greatest player ever.

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on 'Friends' is.

Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.

The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.

I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

You believe in God or statistics or the way your narrative differs from other people.

I think there are certain questions that get asked in comics over and over again, and people want definitive answers, but I feel like there shouldn't be definitive answers.

You don't know what people are looking for. What you know is what you feel like might be missing. It's up to the people to agree with you or disagree with you, and you'll know in their reaction.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

Whatever people think, is.

No matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.

In carefully scrutinizing the affairs of the past, we find that there are many different opinions about them, and that there are some things that are quite unclear. It is better to regard such things as unknowable.

If we can't agree on objective truth, then how are we ever going to agree on opinions?

Football is wonderful because no one is right: there's no absolute truth.

The clear and perfect truth no man has seen, nor will there be anyone who knows about the gods and what I say about all things...; for, however perfect what he says may be, yet he does not know it; all things are matters of opinion.

As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent.

I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart.

Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the author's intention. In fact, nothing in life has meaning. Reality is subjective. Values and truths are subjective. Life itself is a kind of illusion. Blah, blah, blah, let's have another scotch.

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.