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.

Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

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

War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.

I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.

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

If your ego is in good shape you will pretend you're surprised if a National Chairman calls you to tell you his party wants to nominate you for President of the United States, but you're not really surprised.