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.

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.

At last the bottom fell out.No more water in the pail.No more moon in the water.

Because we know he was simply a man, with weakness and frailties. Who yearned for the same things all of us do--to love and be loved

If I could create something that is even minutely close to a small percentile of a genius as Cloud Atlas, I shall deem my life worthy!

Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

There are people in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old. But that's just a power, you see. It would seem to me that would suggest a tremendous aversion to the experience of death.

Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it ten per cent.

Be generous with the credit for your achievements. The more other people feel that they are gaining from your success, the more they will continue to help and others will want to join in

To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.

People love freedom - but nobody wants responsibility. And they come together, they are inseparable.

If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important.