will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other.

When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again.

The best things arrive on time.

when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.

We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.

What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set it right, and emerge an hour or two later breathless, contented, and wondering what on earth happened.