My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.

I had hoped that going to Hiroshima would reveal something small, gritty, and precise to countervail the epic quality of historical accounts.

Man is incurably curious.

Divinity is always where one least expects to find it.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

If he be a stranger in the world, that knows not the things that are in it; why not be a stranger as well, that wonders at the the things that are done in it?

It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know.

Forbidden things are open to the imagination.