We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of planting.

The absence of a message sometimes is a presence of one.

Love had to be deeper than that, than a glance over tea, which was indicative but not dispositive.

The motorcycle’s headlights cut through the darkness. Ahead the road was nothing but a black hole. She roared toward it.

My luck was my father not striking oil... we'd have been rich. I'd never have set out for Hollywood with my camera and I'd have had a lot less interesting life.

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

The visible and invisible worlds are inextricably intertwined... once you’ve opened your eyes to this, you can dance between them.

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

When the leaves of the strongest tree fall, spring is here.

The heart has no wrinkles.

I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage.