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

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.

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.

Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.

When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.

I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.

I am a small business owner I'm in the agri-business. That's about as blind a trust as you can get. We trust in the Lord for rain and many other things.

Look, dear! How adorable. When pop music tries its very hardest, it can be almost as good as Sven Hassel.

How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?

The sensation of colour cannot be accounted for by the physicist's objective picture of light-waves.

The new always looks so puny-so unpromising-next to the reality of the massive, ongoing business.

You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose — or you can decide now to choose them.

Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird