Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

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.

I realised I've got quite a talent for coming up with ideas for design. I've got so many ideas about fashion.

On her son Rene: Oh my God, when he's 20 years old what's going to happen to me? I'm gonna marry him.

I absolutely did date Victoria Beckham, yes.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

My mother was cancer. She slowly destroyed everything around her. She produced two killers; me and my brother Joe.

I have been to Iraq on a number of occasions. I was with the first group that went in.

The amateur tweets. The pro works.

Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.