It is a good life, if you're doing what you like doing.

It's the sheer joy of seeing things grow and helping them to grow, even harvesting the stuff that you've grown yourself, no matter how old you are.

Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is!

My best advice to individual investors can readily be summed up into two closely linked precepts. Be patient and don't be greedy.

In a world of stupidity a thinking man is insane

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

Savor the imminent weirdness of the day.

I think each writer has to seek her most energetic prose style. She has to find a way to write so that nobody can deny it.

Happiness is doubled when you share them together and sadness is halved when you share them together.

I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.

As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

(Antique clocks) need servicing just like your automobile or anything else. They're mechanical, and about every 10 years you should have them cleaned. That's the way they last forever.