If there's one thing I can say about my garden, it can always surprise me.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.

I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right.

I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it.

My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers; if they don't they're weeds.

To boldly grow where no one has groan before.

Latin is a dead tongue And Romans made songs! Then no one disagree: It delighted them in theory Now it's "the Latin" in me.

I want to take a trip to Shakespeare's brain and vacation there with his thoughts may be I also start writing about twisted love and betrayals.

The pimple is perfect.

The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.

It's a pretty scary time. So many emotions come up and you don't really have the wisdom to make the right choices. You can really screw yourself in adolescence.

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

Weathermen merely forecast rain to keep everyone else off the golf course

I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character.

The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results.

As we are, so we see.