A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

The first zucchini I ever saw I killed it with a hoe.

I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.

I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while.

Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky.

What I love about the currawongs is the way in which they appear from nowhere and, for a brief period, rule the garden's soundscape, only to disappear as quickly as they arrived.

At last the bottom fell out.No more water in the pail.No more moon in the water.

There is a powerful relationship between our true spiritual condition and our attitude and actions concerning money and possessions.

In retrospect, I am very nearly as sharp as I pretend to be.

As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.

To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.

My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.

Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass.

Look, I hate good-byes, too. But sometimes, we need them just to survive.

The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.