I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Source: In A Treasury of Great American Quotations, by Charles Hurd, 1964.
-- Henry David Thoreau, (Jul 12 1817-1862), US essayist, poet, naturalist; He is best known for his description of life at Walden Pond, Walden, 1854 and his essay Civil Disobedience, 1849.