You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.

With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born.

if you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.

You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.