A Family Affair Quotes

“There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.”
― Rex Stout, A Family Affair

“The most interesting incident Tuesday morning was my walking to a building on Thirty-fourth Street to enter a booth and push levers on a voting machine. I have never understood why anybody passes up that bargain. It doesn’t cost a cent, and for that couple of minutes you’re the star of the show, with top billing. It’s the only way that really counts for you to say I’m it, I’m the one that decides what’s going to happen and who’s going to make it happen. It’s the only time I really feel important and know I have a right to. Wonderful. Sometimes the feeling lasts all the way home if somebody doesn’t bump me. There”
― Rex Stout, A Family Affair

“I asked if I could use the bathroom. She showed me, down the hall, and I went, though I really had nothing much to pass but the time, and on the way back there was an open door and I entered. A good detective doesn’t have to be invited. There”
― Rex Stout, A Family Affair

“Death is not a joke.”
― Rex Stout, A Family Affair

“He’s the kind that lets out all his sail and then puffs to make his own wind.”
― Rex Stout, A Family Affair

“The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized. You”
― Rex Stout, A Family Affair