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“I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd.”
Source : "Gavin's Woodpile". www.brucecockburn.org. December 15, 2012. 
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“I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up.”
Source : "Piper dreams" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2008.
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“The more I simplify my life, the happier I feel.”
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“Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.”
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“We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.”
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“Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases with each loss) he comprehends - truly knows - that where there was a garden once, it can be again, or where there never was, there yet can be a garden.”
Source : Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.3, Indiana University Press
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“Greaseball, greaseball, greaseball, that's all I throw him (Rod Carew), and he still hits them. He's the only player in baseball who consistently hits my grease. He sees the ball so well, I guess he can pick out the dry side.”
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“I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though I enjoyed it.”
