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

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

“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”

“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”

“Wolfe could get sentimental about it if he wanted to, but I don't like any stranger nosing around my private affairs, let alone a nation of 130 million people.-Archie Goodwin”