I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.

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.

It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

That’s what imperialism is all about, shoving your language, religion, culture, and race down others’ throats and telling them that they’re beneath you – and it’s not unique to the West either.

No one goes to BrooklynVegan to read about content, they just go for drama. It's a tabloid, the scum of indie.

I always played soccer in Adidas, but I always wore Nikes. I love street sportswear.

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature.

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.

Even getting one amazing shot in a pristine environment is what I live for.