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

love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.

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

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.

A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

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