Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
-- Jules Renard AA

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
-- Garrison Keillor AA

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
-- P. G. Wodehouse AA

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
-- William Safire AA