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

The human is the only guilty animal.

You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.

Best thing is to get the words down every day. And it is time to start now.

Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and independent and generous. If our ancestors had not been that, they would have stayed in their home plots in the other world and starved over the squeezed-out soil.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.