“so even an assassin can make the flowers grow." -variations on the death of Trotsky”
“Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.”
“The average lawn is an interesting beast: people plant it, then douse it with artificial fertilizers and dangerous pesticides to make it grow and to keep it uniform-all so that they can hack and mow what they encouraged to grow. And woe to the small yellow flower that rears its head!”
“Trotsky was so much an intellectual that in the final analysis, Marxism was not quite enough for him.”
“If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.”
“Can you cook and sew, make flowers grow, do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?”