“Smart people always choose comfort over luxury”
“People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.”
“I would choose freedom over comfort every time.”
“Most of my books are set in the American Midwest, where I have always lived. Midwesterners are lovely, down-to-earth people. The luxury of choosing this region as a setting is the endless supply of seasonal change images that accompany it; in addition to, the wide variety of settings, urban and rural, to choose from.”
“A people free to choose will always choose peace. ”
“People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and prose, and people have always delighted in it.”