All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

O how we call each other namesYou call me schizophrenicI call you GodBut we do agree on oneDeluded are we both.

At your absolute best, you still won't be good enough for the wrong person. At your worst, you'll still be worth it to the right person.

I have books in every corner of my house. 'Cleaning' my books is a pointless endeavor.

People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Influence means power, and I don't want that. Whatever happens, here we do our own thing and put it out there for people to take or leave. We're not doing anything to influence them.

Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.

Oh, I never look under the hood.

I'd seen weirder things than a haunted shoe, but not many.

The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics.

Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before.