My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

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.

Only those who row the boat make waves

Your purpose is the only thing you should make your obsession.

It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.

A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.

I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic.

We're not always in the position that we want to be at. We're constantly growing, we're constantly making mistakes, we're constantly trying to express ourselves and trying to actualize our dreams.

I have been a fan of comic books since childhood.

I reiterate that the rigor and credibility brought to the world by Monti's government are for us a point of no return.

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

There was a long time where I was an "artist" in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.