Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long suddenly for peace, for understanding.

It is a world, " he said, "filled with the mysterious joinder of accident!""It is a world, " replied Abner, "filled with the mysterious justice of God!

Oh, I knew he was gonna do that. I just knew he was gonna do that. He don't need Jannetty. I told you that off and on.

Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.

...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.

If you fall during your life it doesn't matter because you're never a failure if you try to get up.

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

Prime Minister Modi [Narendra] is strong enough, and he's accomplished much.

I have a car business and if I had to do an estimate on my face, I would probably write it off.

...what I can do is offer myself, wholehearted and present, to walk with the people I love through the fear and the mess. That's all any of us can do. That's what we're here for.

Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.