Don't write about Man; write about a man.

If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be.

My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin Pierce Adams imitating Samuel Pepys. I was quite apt to throw in a "bless the mark" at any spot, and to begin a sentence with "Lord" comma.