Fresh grapes and wine are perhaps the most luscious foods we mortals encounter during our sojourn here.

A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.

Confronted with the vision of a beautiful garden, we see something beautiful about ourselves.

A person who loves his or her work Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized And the yield is greatest.

Our notion of what makes a paradise always returns to the image of a beautiful and fruitful garden.

If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do and aspires to do it one day with the knowledge that she can achieve it, then hey, my work is done.

Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.

I've actually always been into suits. But I never really wore them, I guess because I was too young and it didn't feel right.

The Lord wants us to be filled with hope-not just because it points us to a brighter tomorrow, but because it changes the quality of our lives.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

I started a PhD in English at the University of Chicago because I loved poetry-which I now realize is like saying I studied vivisection because I loved dogs.

I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.

This is the end. This is as far as you can go. After this it all starts over again.