(...) My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built.

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.

Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.' Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

Isn't Googling someone the first thing everyone does?! They meet someone new and Google them!

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

It's important that we see clearly with wisdom and awareness, but also take action.

[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.

A lot of times when I buy a lot of toys, I get a little jealous and keep one or two for myself. So I've got a couple of drones. I've got a couple of remote-control cars. I like to have fun

I'm not the most talkative guy in the world.

Everyone loves something for nothing...even if it costs everything.

I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop.