Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.

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.

Why would any writer in her right mind ever consider making a movie instead? That's like going from being a monk or a nun to serving as a camp counselor for hundreds of problem children.

Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.

My e-mail address is actually my wife's e-mail address. I actually hate computers.

Skills are really just circuits in your brain

All right, big guy, down you go." Oh,yeah. Bed. Bed was good. "And look who's here. It's Nurse Vishous.

Life gave me everything I asked If all I asked was not a great deal, that's my problem!

My wife obviously would like to have her husband right next to her. I keep telling her inshaAllah we will be together in paradise.

I always think that fashion isn't just about clothes; it can be applied to anything.

The only thing is, the more I see him and Corr together, the more I think of how unbearable it would be for Sean to lose him. But we can't both win.

I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.