“Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes. (Nero Wolfe)” — 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
“everything from war to picnics depends on the weather, as Wolfe remarked” — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“Yes, I said something to him, and then I cooled him off.” “Cooled? By what process?” “I knocked him halfway across Broadway… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Rachel Bruner: [trying to goad Wolfe] I thought you were afraid of nobody and nothing. Nero Wolfe: [unruffled] I can dodge… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“Wolfe could get sentimental about it if he wanted to, but I don't like any stranger nosing around my private affairs, let… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“Wolfe still paid no attention to me. As a matter of fact, I didn't expect him to, since he was busy taking… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia... ...Wolfe seemed absorbed… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“Fritz was standing there, four feet back from the door to the office, which was standing open, staring wide-eyed at me. When… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia... ...Wolfe seemed absorbed… — 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses. — Rex Stout Copy Share