It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

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.

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.

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

If you think life is magical or life is hard, either way you are right. Your thoughts are the source of reality.

History tended to repeat itself. Why should her past be any different?

Pure potentiality is a phrase that denotes that pure consciousness is the true essence that lies in us.

Where there is commerce there is peace.

Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.

No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.

It's a really weird feeling when you write something and you really know it and then you watch actors come in and do it.

Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it's my right as an artist not to be affected by the reactions of those people that are going to hear my songs.