People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down.

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

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

Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.