Writing Is Not A Profession. It's A

No Matter How Happy I Had Been In The Past I Do Not Long For It. The Present Is Always The Moment For Which I Love.

I Was Given A Dictionary When I Was Seven, And I Read It Because I Had Nothing Else To Read. I Read It The Way You Read A Book.

I'm Always Telling My Students Go To Law School Or Become A Doctor, Do Something, And Then Write. First Of All You Should Have Something To Write About, And You Only Have Something To Write About If You Do Something.

Gardening Is Really An Extended Form Of Reading, Of History And Philosophy. The Garden Itself Has Become Like Writing A Book. I Walk Around And Walk Around. Apparently People Often See Me Standing There And They Wave To Me And I Don't See Them Because I Am Reading The Landscape.

My Disappointments Stand Up And Grow Ever Taller. They Will Not Be Lost To Me.