Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

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.

Health, peace of mind, peak performance, and success in any area of life all depend upon doing the right thing at the right time, in harmony with the cycles of the Four Seasons.

[Thou] mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms!

Pain indolence sterility endless ennui have also their lesson for you.

One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.

I fell in love with you," he said, "because you were one of the bravest people I've ever known. So how could I ask you to stop being brave just because I loved you?

I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.

There'll never be any revolution. Humanity has bartered it for Coca-Cola and cable television.

I make so many beginnings there never will be an end.

I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.

The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.