The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist.

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.

... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.

I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.