"We parked our bikes on verges so they could graze."
— Roddy Doyle (Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha)

"In the banks and business offices of this world no one gives a hang if someone walks in with a cabbage under his arm, or a toucan, or with the songs my mother taught me spouting from his mouth like a hemp cord, or holding a chimpanzee in a striped T-shirt by the hand. But let someone walk in with a bicycle, what a fuss they raise, the vehicle is ejected forcibly into the street while its hapless owner is subjected to the vehement admonitions of the employees."
— Julio Cortázar (Cronopios and Famas)