[Petunias are] as hopelessly impractical as a chiffon ball dress.

To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.

Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation to be anthropomorphic about plants, to suspect that they do it to annoy.

To see things in black and white is to see the basics, and I would recommend to any designer of gardens that he go out and look at his work by the light of the moon.

A garden is a private world or it is nothing.

The problem was I always took the blame. But he was wrong. But I thought me taking the blame could fix it.

until the stone becomes soft, it cannot attach itself to the wall.

Her half-closed eyes were moist and tremulous and languid with desire. I began to drink love from them with thirsty kisses

You can NEVER be poor by giving and showing love to others.

Don't ever think that somebody isn't important or not good enough, because you never know which way the road will take you.

I'm not good at math. Numbers are a terrifying thing to me. My father is a whiz with money and the stock market, and he tries to explain it to me, and I find it terrifying.

You couldn't catch a mouse if leaped in between your paws!

Did all this make sense?

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

I really like sometimes to do action pictures; I get a really big kick out of doing those.