The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

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.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

The saddest sorrow is to desire death while you have life.

I've been lucky, I've had movies that made a lot of money, so I don't feel like I have to kill every time out. I don't want that pressure. I don't need it.

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.

I would never have discovered alcohol.

Certainly it constitutes bad news if the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.

You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.

I don't want to turn any of this into poetry / but / you're so beautiful / flowers turn their heads to smell you

I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines.

I see a continuation of the populist outrage that prompted the Brexit and sparked the Bernie Sanders campaign.