Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.

All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.

Your garden will reveal yourself.

There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the dahlias and starts wondering if it's too late.

Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.

Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.

Turn down the noise. Reduce the speed. Be like the somnolent bears, or those other animals that slow down and almost die in the cold season. Let it be the way it is. The magic is there in its power.

A garden is not a picture, but a language.

Nature does not hesitate to interfere with me. So I do not hesitate to tamper with it.

All who see it say, "Well, you have favorable conditions here. Everything grows for you." Everything grows for everybody. Everything dies for everybody, too.

Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks.

Give a man a fish

And I am not one of these long-living fictional characters who prays for death as a release from the captivity of eternal life

Something terrible happens to people who don't create, something poisonous. Creating is a necessity for all humans, like breathing. If you don't do it, you suffer.

Become so good they can't ingore you, and you are on the path to success.Become so good they can't stand you, and you are on the path to greatness.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance, " said William Shakespeare. How would he know, he knew everything?

I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person.

And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.

Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating.

The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst squatters in religious territory.

If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what I wrote about you, which is entirely possible, then yes, I'm a dangerous writer.