There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

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

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

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.

I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.