"The most striking features of the correctly bred German Shepherds are firmness of nerves, attentiveness, unshockability, tractability, watchfulness, reliability and incorruptibility together with courage, fighting tenacity and hardness."

“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.”

“Cracks make caves collapse.”

“Yeah, I think on my resume it still says that - that I can juggle.”

Source : "Luke Kirby’s Character Curveball". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 16, 2012.

“I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.”

“True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.”

“When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom?”

“One of the major problems is what we do to the soil, the air, the water and everything, we take in our food.”

“Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.”