“Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.”
“If you want to make a movie out of my book, have one of these faces gently melt into my own, while I look.”
“One's own troubles sharpen one's eyes sometimes.”
“You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.”
“One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.”
“One must make one's own mistakes”