“Turn back to humanity – to the world – to love! Become gardeners – whatever you want! – become nothing! – and the whole of space will be free for you.”

“Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”

“Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”

“If a man's got talent and guts to buck society, he's obviously above average. You want to hold on to him. You straighten him out and turn him into a plus value. Why throw him away? Do that enough and all you've got left are the sheep.”

“I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.”

“In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.”