Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
“When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.”
“Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.”