With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open...Why, that makes a man great...He can choose his course and fight it through and win...I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest'. ch 24

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em.

I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it.

At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.