A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.

Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.

They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.

And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.

How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.