The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
-- William Faulkner AA

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. AA

If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.
-- Unknown AA

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
-- H. L. Mencken AA