Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in his life, and this is mine. It is not the best book I ever encountered, perhaps, but it is for me the handiest, and I keep it about me in much the same way one carries a handkerchief - for relief in moments of defluxion or despair.

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

I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.

I always write a thing first and think about it afterward, which is not a bad procedure because the easiest way to have consequential thoughts is to start putting them down.

Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

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