Always take a good look at what you're about to eat. It's not so important to know what it is, but it's critical to know what it was

The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig.

Stolen kisses require an accomplice.

Just 'cause you're following a well-marked trail don't mean that whoever made it knew where they were goin'.

It's easy to see things you're lookin' for. The trick is to see things you're not looking for.

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a raindance.

Never be too quick to criticize yourself. It's not fair to all of your friends and relatives, who are dying to do it for you.

Speak your mind, but ride a fast horse.

Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points.

The real lowdown on gardening is ... dirt.

You can just about always stand more 'n you think you can.

Evil isn't born...Neither is purity. Because even as newborns, there is something wrong inside of all of us bound to spring up and activate itself within us.

I is Jovial. I is Optimistic. I is Antsy. I is Noteworthy. I is Nervy. I is Ambitious.But altogether ME is JOANNA.WHO ARE YOU ALTOGETHER????

Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

And the books you write. They're not you. They're not me sitting here, this Henry Miller. They belong to someone else. It's terrible. You can never rest.

Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.

Order is ... the true key to rapidity of reaction.

One who has loved truly can never lose entirely.

Die every day. Be reborn again every day.

I go back and forth as to whether I think Nancy Pelosi's really this dumb or not. Although, every time I hear her speak I get closer and closer to concluding that she is this dumb.