You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It's got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events.

The opulence of Wilde is a bit too florid for Sherlock, who is a much darker character, ... fascinated by the human condition, but also overwhelmed by it.

I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.

To give and not expect anything in return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried.

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.