My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

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're handed sour grapestake off your shoes and start dancing

He arches his back because when you forgive, the body says, "Thank God.

Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest

It is in his obsessions that mankind most closely resembles his machines.

I find that a lot of times when family members get bronchitis or the flu or something like that, I'll kind of skate through and be really lucky and not get that sick.

The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.

I'm afraid to be on this shore a trunk without limbs, and what I most regret is not to have flower, pulp, or clay for the worm of my suffering.

"I shouldn't have done that," I said. That was when I kissed him again. May God forgive me for this and all these things I've done.

Enclosures have been appropriately called a revolution of the rich against the poor.

Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.