To an aspiring young barrister: “If you want want to be a barrister, keep the rules! … You can swear at them, argue your way round them, do your damnedest to change them, but if you break the rules yourself, how the hell are you going to help the other idiots out of trouble?” — “Rumpole and the Old Boy Net,” p. 315 from “The Second Rumpole Omnibus (Penguin Books 1988)