Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of them…I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb." "You can’t make a race horse of a pig." "No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig.

Some days are born ugly. From the very first light they are no damn good what ever the weather, and everbody knows it. No one knows what causes this, but on such a day people resist getting out of bed and set their heels against the day. When they are finally forced out by hunger or job they find that the day is just as lousy as they knew it would be.

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed

He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories. -Hazel, Cannery Row

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.