Champagne for One

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.

Yeah. I'm the fly in the soup. I don't like it any better than you do. Flies don't like being swamped in soup, especially when it's hot.

I have undertaken to to find an explanation for something that can't possibly be explained-Nero Wolfe

...if he had married Mrs. Albert Grantham for her money I freely admit that no man marries without a reason and with her it would have been next to impossible to think up another one....

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.

Killing good champagne with junk like sugar and bitters and lemon peel is of course a common crime

In a world that operates largely at random

You are headstrong and I am magisterial. Our tolerance of each other is a constantly recurring miracle.

Archie.' 'Yes, sir.' 'Do I ever intrude in your private affairs?' 'Yes, sir. Frequently. But you think you don't, so go right ahead.