[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.

Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him.

Lennie said quietly, "It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'.

Courage and fear were one thing too.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.