Archie Goodwin Quotes

“I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.”
― Rex Stout, Might as Well Be Dead

“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 the 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.”
― Rex Stout

“When I told [Lily Rowan] I wouldn't be able to make it to the Polo Grounds tomorrow, she began to call Wolfe names, and thought of several new ones that showed her wide experience and fine feeling for words.”
― Rex Stout, Before Midnight