I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.

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.

I never took much, I never asked for your crutch, Now don't ask for mine.

Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.

Skiing makes me feel great, and it gives my legs such an incredible workout.

All writing is a form of prayer.

The cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history.

He looked at me. " I do know how to deal with demons, Savannah." "I know. Sorry." "So I get a hug?" "No, but I won't smack you, and we'll call it even.

When taxes are too high, people go hungry.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

Someone once said there was a comparison between Sugar Ray Leonard and Sugar Ray Robinson. Believe me, there's no comparison. Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest.