Vincent’s boots

Facts are simple, essential and indifferent. Opinions are clamorous, contradictory and attention-seeking.

Snorting and robust

The difference between fact and opinion is the difference between Hoof Hearted and a unicorn.

Finito

Enough already! If your relationship needs reviving, gown down. The patient has expired.

Shape-shifters

Facts don’t fight with one another; they don’t contradict or reverse themselves. Facts do not want or fear anything. Facts don’t wobble, compromise, defend themselves or make allowances. Falsehoods are shape-shifters. They’re in continual conflict.

A nod to the croupier

Is love a fact? Not love of one person for another, not love of some but not of others, but universal love. Is that a fact? Pascal: “You must wager. Make your choice.”