There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.

And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.

Why don't you go on west to California? There's work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an orange. Why, there's always some kind of crop to work in. Why don't you go there?

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and shelled for at the back of a bombing run is invariably a photograph. In the back of ruined towns, and cities, and factories, there is aerial mapping, or spy mapping, usually with a camera. Therefore the camera is a feared instrument, and a man with a camera is suspected and watched wherever he goes... In the minds of most people today the camera is the forerunner of destruction, and it is suspected, and rightly so.

Nobody changes. Nobody gets hurt.