"In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver."

“I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.”

“Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.”

Source : Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.23, Wakefield Press

“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.”

“I've always said I can't tell sometimes that people even have an album out until I see them nominated for a Grammy. I think country gets dumped on across the board by the Grammys.”

“I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.”

“Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.”

“Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?”

“If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever youre doing worse than anyone else in the whole world.”