“A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.”

“If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.”

“I send my friends e-mail messages about the progress of my garden, especially of my roses. It left them with the impression, I think, that I was concerned with nothing else. I felt no urgency in correcting that notion. People obsessed with their gardens have probably caused the least suffering in the world of any category of men.”

“For a long time, I was trapped in this struggle with my emotions about the single person in the world who was my family.”

“It's not something you tell your single best friend. It'd be like rubbing your nose in the poop of my happiness.”

“No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!”