Bruce Smith

“I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.”
― James Baldwin

“The concept of “confirmation bias”—the tendency of people to favor information, true or not, that confirms their preexisting beliefs—was introduced in the 1960s by Peter Wason, a British psychologist. Wason did a famous series of experiments that explored how people give lesser weight to data that contradicts what they think is true. (As if we needed more proof that what’s hidden can make us draw the wrong conclusions.)”
― Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

“. I could make it vivid and funny, and even exaggerate some of it so that the event became almost mythical, and the people involved seemed larger, and there was a sense of larger significance, of meaning.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary.”
― Stephen King, Cujo