The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

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

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis.... I was all asprawl, clinging to Beauty, which is a very restless trellis.

Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.