Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

It's not as though the world hates you- it just has no idea who you are

We only live if we dream.

She leaned forward and whispered sensuously in his ear, 'I am Lilith and you are mine now - forever.

The only people who need to fear me, are those that hurt you..." - TDS, Seven Dirty Words

When love is not madness it is not love.

Fountains are more romantic when you don't hate the person you're with.

I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.

From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens - the garden outdoors, the garden of pots and bowls in the house, and the garden of the mind's eye.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.