People do not want advice - they want corroboration.
There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.
He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories. -Hazel, Cannery Row
At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam tells him, "You can't make a race horse of a pig." Samuel replies, "No, but you can make a very fast pig.
Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.
There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him.