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“At the end of our conversation she (Martha Stout) turned to address you, the reader. She said if you're beginning to feel worried that you may be a psychopath, if you recognize some of those traits in yourself, if you're feeling a creeping anxiety about it, that means you are not one.”
Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry“There are two kinds of statistics the kind you look up and the kind you make up.”
Rex Stout“A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221 1/2 B Baker Street and didn't find”
Rex Stout“Every man alive is half idiot & half hero. Only heroes could survive in this maelstrom & only idiots would want to.”
Rex Stout“It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous ”
Rex Stout“We feel that if someone is bad, he should be burdened with the knowledge that he is bad. It seems to us the ultimate injustice that a person could be evil, by our assessment , and still feel fine about himself.”
Martha Stout