- Nero Wolfe: This is quite beyond belief. You know how rigidly I maintain my personal schedule. You know how I resent any interference in these two hours of relaxation. Yet you enter my home by duplicity! You come charging up here to ask a question! You have no right to an answer, so you don't get one! Indeed, under these circumstances, I doubt you could put a question to anything whatsoever that I would answer!
- Archie Goodwin: Narration: If you're playing stud, and there's only one card to come, and the man across has two jacks showing and all you have is a mess, it doesn't matter what his hole card is, or yours either.