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.

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.

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

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.

I think if Jeremy Corbyn got a cloak, he'd make a very good Gandalf.

I believe that all people from the humanity which are dead. Aren't really dead, they are just out of the stage and they are on the chairs and they are watching the Endless Film.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent and you feel those people filling your lives.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness.

Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time.

Looking to Donald Trump's immigration speech can he hang onto his base if he softens his stance on the issue that got him this far?

No chemical carcinogen is nearly so important in causing human cancer as animal protein.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.