Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.
I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.
Having already had one glorious marriage, perhaps I ought to count myself lucky and stop while I'm ahead.
In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.
Tortoises can survive for weeks without food or water, easily long enough to float in the Humboldt Current from South America to the Galapagos Islands.
When I was a young man, I shined the shoes of Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! Music was just everywhere like that. And in my family, everyone could play something, and if they couldn't play, they could sing.
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room.
Health is relative. There is no such thing as an absolute state of health or sickness. Everyone's physical, mental, and emotional condition is a combination of both.
In everything I write, I'm always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness.
You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.
I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.
There is an elementary level of trust that is necessary for community. You have to be able to trust that your neighbors aren't going to look into your mailbox.
