Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

In Minnesota it's so cold some nights you have to wear two condoms.

And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom of the brain.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Just go to bed, now. Quickly. Quickly and slowly.

You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.

An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized by the law of libel .

In high school I went on about three dates.

I've always had the sensation that people in America are always avant-garde. Very attentive to all the new innovations. But it's very specialized.

I think that there's no doubt that to work in film is a bit more of a creative journey. It's not that I don't put the same time or heart into something that's on television.