Good gardening is very simple, really. You just have to learn to think like a plant.

I don't think we'll ever know all there is to know about gardening, and I'm just as glad there will always be some magic about it!

Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.

Unfortunately, in the very act of weeding, you make it possible for new weeds to grow.

Vivi held up the front page of the New York Times, pointing out the headline: 'The Grinch Who Killed Christmas.'"Way to go, Grinch,

Don’t talk to people you don’t want to talk to, and don’t talk about stuff you don’t want to talk about.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.

My friends often tell me how very German I still am.

We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.

As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it.

Encouragement is food for the heart, and every heart is a hungry heart.

There's always something every night that I learn from reacting to what the audience is reacting to. You learn what to leave out, what to put in, if you need a little more comedy or more drama.