To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.

At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous.

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.

Green thoughts emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released.

Sitting in your garden is a feat to be worked at with unflagging determination and single-mindedness. . . . I am deeply committed to sitting in the garden.

...if this Roman dude’s as bad as you say, then why are you lurking outside his store looking all charged and heated like a dog waiting for its owner?

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

I think I do pretty well with child characters. It's hard to write kids that are realistic, not annoying, and bring something to the story.

I feel very accomplished. It makes me feel great to know that I am impacting lives and of service to the world.

When I am not desperate, I am worthless.

Potential is a priceless treasure, like gold. All of us have gold hidden within, but we have to dig to get it out.

I have a lot of road rage. Mostly with the rickshaw and cab drivers trying to cut me; it's the traffic. Grrrr!

I'm sorry about yesterday," she said. He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens.

Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable.

The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.