"Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage."

“The jaws' hooked clamp and fangs Not to be changed at this date; A life subdued to its instrument.”

“Every time you play you have energy within you - universal energy. That's the energy that keeps everything together - the planets, the galaxies. Everything.”

“You know, it was once said of the first George Bush that he was born on third base and thought he'd hit a triple. Well, with the 22 million new jobs and the budget surplus Bill Clinton left behind, George W. Bush came into office on third base, and then he stole second.”

“And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.”

“Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally. Guys don”t really care, they just want to get the clothes off.”

“It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had fallen into the meanest type of self-deception in making myself believe that all this was in preparation for great things to come.”

“For my life, I confess to you, feels to me today somewhat narrow and circumscribed.”

Source : Paul Brody, Kenneth Grahame (2015). “The Life and Works of Kenneth Grahame: A Biography and Collection of Grahame’s Work”, p.425, BookCaps Study Guides

“We have now reached the point where you can wander down Queen Street in Auckland and wonder if you are still in New Zealand or some other country.”

Source : Interview with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. May 17, 2006.