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 year so that Nixon won't be President. If he's re-elected I'll have to live… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish.” — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“everything from war to picnics depends on the weather, as Wolfe remarked” — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if you have one. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“When we turned right on Thirty-fifth Street our suffix came along. By the time we rolled to the curb in front of Wolfe's house… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense.… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
