A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.

We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.

the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.