Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.

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.

If you live for money, no amount will ever satisfy you.

If your thoughts and beliefs are always in support of your destiny, happiness would become an instant gift, while success would only become a matter of time.

Walt put everything he knew about communication with images into the park, so it was very familiar.

Beau’s arms slipped around my waist. I knew I should step away but I couldn’t make myself. This was home. Being in his arms like this was where I found peace.

Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.

Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.

Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.

I'm a size 10. I could be a size 8 if i wanted to, but i'm effin hungry

The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.