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

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

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

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

“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.”

“I could have told, just looking at him, that that was the tone he would use asking a question. A tone that took it for granted any question he asked was going to be answered because he asked it. I don't like it and I know of no way anybody is ever going to make me like it.”