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

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with.

Every man in a bank hates what the bank does and yet the bank does it.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Fella says today, 'Depression is over. I seen a jackrabbit, an' they wasn't nobody after him.' An' another fella says, 'That aint the reason. Can't afford to kill jackrabbits no more. Catch 'em and milk 'em an' turn 'em loose. One you seen prob'ly gone dry.

What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.