Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?
The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.
What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.
Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.
Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.