“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”

“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”

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

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

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

“Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia......Wolfe seemed absorbed in the pictures. Looking at him, I said to myself, "He's in a battle with the elements. He's fighting his way through a raging blizzard, just sitting there comfortably looking at pictures of snowflakes. That's the advantage of being an artist, of having imagination." I said aloud, "You mustn't go to sleep, sir, it's fatal. You freeze to death.”