“I have undertaken to to find an explanation for something that can't possibly be explained-Nero Wolfe”

“Only the man that knows to little, knows too much." Nero Wolfe”

“Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.(Nero Wolfe)”

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

“More people saying what they believe would be a great improvement. Because I often do I am unfit for common intercourse.-Nero Wolfe in "Blood Will Tell”

“It strikes me, sir, that you are nearing the point where even a grateful American might tell you to go to the devil.-Nero Wolfe to an FBI Agent”

“Mrs. Rachel Bruner: [trying to goad Wolfe] I thought you were afraid of nobody and nothing.Nero Wolfe: [unruffled] I can dodge folly without backing into fear.”