I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.

The first zucchini I ever saw I killed it with a hoe.

I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while.

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky.

What I love about the currawongs is the way in which they appear from nowhere and, for a brief period, rule the garden's soundscape, only to disappear as quickly as they arrived.

At last the bottom fell out.No more water in the pail.No more moon in the water.

The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it.

I’d never managed anyone before, so I don’t have a lot of experience. But I’m lucky - I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me.

I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.

Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.

Chimps act the way they feel unless they are afraid of reprisal if they do so. But that doesn't apply to humans.

I really like the really high banked tracks.

Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.

The only thing worse than Radiohead fans is everything else except me

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.