Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes..

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up..

I like to walk around Manhattan, catching glimpses of its wild life, the pigeons and cats and girls..

I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best..

MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it..

What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to..

The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off.

The brain can be hoodwinked but not the stomach..

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene..

I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion..

I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his ….

One trouble with living beyond your deserved number of years is that there's always some reason to live another year. And I'd like to live another ye….

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy..

No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it grace….

As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him..

Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his or Fritz's c….

Everyone has something they don't want anyone to see; that is one of the functions of a home, to provide a spot to keep such things..

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses..

War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread..

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements..

I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know. (Nero Wolfe).