Life already has so many boundaries and pressures - why add more in the garden?

Doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you ANYWAY.

There is all the pleasure that one can have in golddigging in finding one’s hopes satisfied in the riches of a good hill of potatoes.

Living aboard one's sailboat and having neither house nor vehicle nor job, and needing none, would be hubris—the most arrogant presumption—and therefore suitable punishable by the gods. One would be drowned by Poseidon early on and die extremely happy.

People no longer live by sun and moon, by wind and stars, but by some slyly contrived conventions known as clocks and calendars.

Potatoes have much more staying power than caviar.