The Owner Built Home: A How-to-do-it Book (1972)
“We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.”
Variant: summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.”
Letter to Willam Cole (28 May 1774)
“Ceiling insulation is… preferable to roof-top insulation.”
The Owner Built Home: A How-to-do-it Book (1972)
The Spanish Student http://www.readbookonline.net/title/3208/, Act I, sc. iii (serenade) (1843).
“Gossip grows like weeds
In a summer meadow.
My girl and I
Sleep arm in arm.”
XIX, p. 21
Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (1955)
“One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.”
11 September 1941
My Day (1935–1962)
