I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.

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.

A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise.

The eye of a man is never satisfied with what it sees.

I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.

Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.

I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.

A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.

Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you

I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.

You know that we are lost when babies are addicted to drugs when they are born.

What do they do for a village idiot when you're here?