The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.

Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.

A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.

The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices. ... But the garden's greatest benefit, I feel, as not relief to the eyes, but to make the eyes sees our neighbors.

A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a mind-altering drug we took daily.

You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland.

The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.