Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?

There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

I am the richest person alive (or at least one of!) because I get to do what I love as a career.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.

Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Chase your dreams, even if you trip.

If life worked on auto mode then there manual mode for photography would have never existed.

Everyone's the anti-Teddy Roosevelt. Speak loudly and carry a brittle twig.

The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.

Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.

The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.

My God! What is there in this place that a man should ever want to get into it?

Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism.

Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.