Advice

Never trust a man without a chin.

-Rex Stout, Over My Dead Body

Rancor

Confound it, rancor is a pimple on the brain.

-Rex Stout, Eeny Meeny Murder Moe

Waking Up

I would appreciate it if they would call a halt on all their devoted efforts to find a way to abolish war or eliminate disease or run trains with atoms or extend the span of human life to a couple of centuries, and everybody concentrate for a while on how to wake me up in the morning without my resenting it. It may be that a bevy of beautiful maidens in pure silk yellow very sheer gowns, barefooted, singing Oh, What a Beautiful Morning and scattering rose petals over me would do the trick, but I'd have to try it.

-Rex Stout’s character Archie Goodwin (hat tip Terry Teachout)