Rex Stout
Rex Stout
Rex Todhunter Stoutwas an American writer noted for his detective fiction. His best-known characters are the detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin, who were featured in 33 novels and 39 novellas between 1934 and 1975...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 December 1886
CountryUnited States of America
choices world force
It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.
experts cost opinion
Opinions, from experts, cost money.
never-quit spirals obvious
Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.
waste fool philosopher
Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
running believe mean
What do I believe in? Belief means faith, and there's only one damned thing in the world I have any faith in. That's the idea of American democracy, because it seems to me so obvious that that's the only sensible way to run human affairs.
earth tricks physicist
There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.
income crime taxes
The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
brain stomach
The brain can be hoodwinked but not the stomach.
mean thinking democracy
I think the detective story is by far the best upholder of the democratic doctrine in literature. I mean, there couldn't have been detective stories until there were democracies, because the very foundation of the detective story is the thesis that if you're guilty you'll get it in the neck and if you're innocent you can't possibly be harmed. No matter who you are.
children book sleep
I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness.
two answers assumption
I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.
spiritual men thinking
I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity.
home want function
Everyone has something they don't want anyone to see; that is one of the functions of a home, to provide a spot to keep such things.
latter distasteful
As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.