Flowers really do intoxicate me.

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

Tools have their own integrity.

Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.

a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the true pleasure of life may be tasted, the region of imagination, creative and protean, the clouds and beautiful shapes of whose heaven are destroyed by the wind of reality.

There are no signposts in the sea.

I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.