A good marriage shuts out a very great deal.

They are commiting murder who merely live.

True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.

My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless you needed someone to make one sustained note!

Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.

It's extraordinary how little two people can understand each other and how cruel two people who are fond of each other can be to each other - there is practically no cruelty so awful because their power to hurt is so great.

I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.