We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

Saints can spring from any soil.

A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.

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'.

The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.

There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.

Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and a zoophalist then I shall know that I have reached the high point of fame, but I suppose I can hardly expect such exaltation for many years.