My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.

We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for some it’s a talent, for others only an addiction.

A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.

I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.

Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

Inside the peach, there is a stone.