There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.

Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.

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

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try.

One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.

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