“Workdays are, I imagine, rather like learning to ice-skate Torvill and Deans The Bolero. They start and end easily enough; its the bit in the middle that causes the pain in the arse.”

“Character and purpose are directly linked to confidence and conviction. What links them? Courage to be oneself, no matter what others might say.”

“You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday.”

“Compromise is a choice. As is the defence of ones self.”

“In with the new, out with the old. Thats what were told. We have to change, adapt, compromise.”

“Change, it seems, is inevitable. And so is compromise.”

“I cleaned the shit off my pink high-tops and drove home, stopping for an espresso at the coffeehouse across from the college. Men and women were hunched over copies of Jean Paul Sartre and writing ...”

“Best of all, she waits outside the dressing room while I'm changing. Girlfriends don't do this but wives do, and if there is any better reason to get married than to have someone to hold your hand ...”

“[T]he dozen or so items I wished to return to XXI Forever could only be traded in, and the store had a strict BOGO policy: Buy One, Get One (Free). This means that the 12 items I had but did not ne...”

“I'll never wake up in a good mood again.I'm tired of these stinky boots”

“Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?”

“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”

“By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors.”

“Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.”

“Were all given gifts in life, its what we do with them that shows us what weve learned.”