I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.

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.

Bifurcation embraces the weapon of success and failure.

Obviously she's the kind of woman who gives people the benefit of the doubt. I prefer to assume bad stuff first

Would You Wear My Eyes?

[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.

I'm much more a writer than an actor. Although I have a great respect for that and I enjoy acting still, it really is about the world that I'm creating. That's where my future is.

A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.

Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures.

I'm not one of those actors who asks for too many favours. So when I do, people tend to listen.

I'm just going to play whatever game is in front of me.

By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it's entirely possible we will have flown with men to the outer planets.