Archie, explaining Wolfe's reaction to a dictionary that allows the use of "imply" in place of "infer," in ''Gambit'', chapter 1.
She was staring up at me. "He's burning up a dictionary?"
"Right. That's nothing. Once he burned up a cookbook because it said to remove the hide from a ham end before putting it in the pot with lima beans. Which he loves most, food or words, is a tossup."