Why don't you go on west to California? There's work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an orange. Why, there's always some kind of crop to work in. Why don't you go there?

Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing.

All we got is the family unbroke.

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.

They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.