New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful city in the world.

A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been.

I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.

I can never give a 'yes' or a 'no.' I don't believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable.

A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel upclimb.

The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.

Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.