You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

Memory is the only friend of grief.

Believe me, I’ve lived long enough to know that no matter how stable a life may seem, there’s always something that can change all of that in a blink of an eye.

Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems.

People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.

You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.

Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

For me to say I wasn't a genius I'd just be lying to you and to myself

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.