The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

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.

Have you been hitting the wine or my mother's brownies again?

Lost: Heartbeat. Last seen being chased away by an Irishman’s shameless grin. Reward if returned.

This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged.

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.

Boxing's all about getting the job done as quickly as possible, whether it takes 10 or 15 or 20 rounds.

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

When I was pregnant, I was so huge and people on the bus would get up for me. That made me feel so precious and valued and valuable. I try to treat everyone like they're pregnant.

I don't want to be in Mötley Crüe or something.