It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

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.

Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don't betray will be betrayed.

To find stability within the world, one must first find stability within.

The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

What do you get when you kiss a guy? You get enough germs to catch pneumonia. After you do, he'll never phone you.

Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything.

I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.

So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after

There is a lot of territory out there still to explore TV-wise, show-wise, movie-wise, everything.

I'm not a truthiness fanatic, I'm truthiness's father.