Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

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.

There is no doubt that nations come to an end when they have ceased to fulfill the function that God meant for them.

Dracula and LSU Football are at their best after the sun goes down.

I consider myself a very driven and intense fighter.

A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

I am not going to use the federal government's authority deliberately to circumvent the natural inclination of people to live in ethnic homogeneous neighborhoods.

I had a lot of maturing I had to go through. I consider myself a smart individual in seeing that this is not the road I want to take.

Yet mystery and reality emerge from the same source.

I think punditry serves no purpose.

I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.

I think of me being a painter eventually.