I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

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

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.

As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.

The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.